Hyojung Seo, PhD
Associate Professor of PsychiatryDownloadHi-Res Photo
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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry
Congress Place, 301 Cedar St. Rm 319
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Hyojung Seo received her bachelor and master's degree in Psychology from Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. She then completed her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience with her thesis research on the neurophysiology of the oculomotor system. Dr. Seo continued her research in decision neuroscience as a post-doctoral fellow and associate research scientist at Yale University and joined the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University as an assistant professor in 2016.
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Psychiatry
Associate Professor on TermPrimaryNeuroscience
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- Center for Brain & Mind Health
- Division of Molecular Psychiatry
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Track
- Psychiatry
- Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Education & Training
- PhD
- Seoul National University (2004)
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Behavior, Animal; Learning; Memory; Neurophysiology; Prefrontal Cortex; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia
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0000-0002-2928-9018- View Lab Website
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Research topics Hyojung Seo is interested in exploring.
8Publications
696Citations
Behavior, Animal
Learning
Prefrontal Cortex
Memory
Publications
2024
Therapeutic doses of ketamine acutely attenuate the aversive effect of losses during decision-making
Oemisch M, Seo H. Therapeutic doses of ketamine acutely attenuate the aversive effect of losses during decision-making. ELife 2024, 12 DOI: 10.7554/elife.87529.3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPotential antidepressant effectsDose of ketamineAntidepressant effectsKetamine's antidepressant actionRapid-acting antidepressantsPathophysiology of depressionImpact of negative eventsAntidepressant actionBehavioral perseverationAversive effectsNeuropsychological changesTreating depressionAffect memoryMood statesNegative eventsAdaptive behaviorSynaptic levelAffective eventsTemporal credit assignmentTherapeutic dosesDepressionCognitive aspectsInhibitory circuitryBehavioral changesAcute effectsTherapeutic doses of ketamine acutely attenuate the aversive effect of losses during decision-making
Oemisch M, Seo H. Therapeutic doses of ketamine acutely attenuate the aversive effect of losses during decision-making. ELife 2024, 12: rp87529. PMID: 38700991, PMCID: PMC11068354, DOI: 10.7554/elife.87529.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsDose of ketamineAntidepressant effectsKetamine's antidepressant actionPotential antidepressant effectsRapid-acting antidepressantsPathophysiology of depressionImpact of negative eventsAntidepressant actionBehavioral perseverationAversive effectsNeuropsychological changesTreating depressionAffect memoryMood statesNegative eventsAdaptive behaviorSynaptic levelAffective eventsTemporal credit assignmentTherapeutic dosesDepressionCognitive aspectsInhibitory circuitryBehavioral changesAcute effects
2017
Chapter 18 Reinforcement Learning and Strategic Reasoning During Social Decision-Making
Seo H, Lee D. Chapter 18 Reinforcement Learning and Strategic Reasoning During Social Decision-Making. 2017, 225-231. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-805308-9.00018-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsMultiple learning algorithmsLearning algorithmSocial decision-making taskDecision-making taskComplex social environmentComplex learning algorithmsEfficient learning algorithmHeuristic learning algorithmDifferent cortical areasPrefrontal cortexNeural activityReinforcement learningStrategic reasoningSocial environmentCortical areasAlgorithmBasal gangliaInformationTaskReasoningLearningSocialCortexIntentionPrevious studies
2014
Neural correlates of strategic reasoning during competitive games
Seo H, Cai X, Donahue CH, Lee D. Neural correlates of strategic reasoning during competitive games. Science 2014, 346: 340-343. PMID: 25236468, PMCID: PMC4201877, DOI: 10.1126/science.1256254.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
2013
Cortical Signals for Rewarded Actions and Strategic Exploration
Donahue CH, Seo H, Lee D. Cortical Signals for Rewarded Actions and Strategic Exploration. Neuron 2013, 80: 223-234. PMID: 24012280, PMCID: PMC3792491, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.07.040.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
2009
Lateral Intraparietal Cortex and Reinforcement Learning during a Mixed-Strategy Game
Seo H, Barraclough DJ, Lee D. Lateral Intraparietal Cortex and Reinforcement Learning during a Mixed-Strategy Game. Journal Of Neuroscience 2009, 29: 7278-7289. PMID: 19494150, PMCID: PMC2743508, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1479-09.2009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsBehavioral and Neural Changes after Gains and Losses of Conditioned Reinforcers
Seo H, Lee D. Behavioral and Neural Changes after Gains and Losses of Conditioned Reinforcers. Journal Of Neuroscience 2009, 29: 3627-3641. PMID: 19295166, PMCID: PMC2750005, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4726-08.2009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsFrontal cortexDorsomedial frontal cortexBehavioral effectsConditioned reinforcersDorsal anterior cingulate cortexAnterior cingulate cortexMedial frontal cortexDorsolateral prefrontal cortexCingulate cortexNeural changesRhesus monkeysNeural effectsCortexPrefrontal cortexPrevious trialsSubsequent trialsNeural mechanisms
2007
Temporal Filtering of Reward Signals in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex during a Mixed-Strategy Game
Seo H, Lee D. Temporal Filtering of Reward Signals in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex during a Mixed-Strategy Game. Journal Of Neuroscience 2007, 27: 8366-8377. PMID: 17670983, PMCID: PMC2413179, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2369-07.2007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
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activity Brain Research
Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsMemberDetailsEditorial board04/11/2017 - Presentactivity The Journal of Neuroscience
Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsMemberDetailsAssociate editor12/14/2016 - Present
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