Lab Members

Dr. Youngsun T. Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. She holds an MD/PhD degree from the University of Rochester, and completed dissertation work on amygdala neuroanatomy and reward processing using fMRI. She completed psychiatry residency in the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) at Yale, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. Her current research focuses on the development of cognitive and motivational brain circuits in adolescents with depression and adolescents with schizophrenia using fMRI, and pharmacologic neuroimaging to identify mechanisms of potential treatments. Her work is funded by the NIMH, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

Hi there! My name's Sam Brege (Pronounced breh-geh) and I'm currently a PGA for the Anticevic Lab at Yale. I graduated from UCSD (San Diego, California) in 2023 with a BS. in Cognitive Science (Spec. in Neurocomputation and Machine Learning). My main interest is in Neuroscience inspired AI (NeuroAI), with a particular focus on Thousand Brains theory, Reference Frames, and Grid Cells. Currently I'm working on shoring up my Computational Neuroscience skills, learning how to work in an lab environment, and broadening my experience with Neuroscience as a whole. Following my time as a PGA, I hope to pursue a phD. Other hobbies of mine include pottery, cooking, espresso, and just generally making things! I also have a passion for video games and high fantasy books.

Courtney graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Psychology. At Fordham, she completed an Honors Thesis along Dr. Amy Roy on boredom and psychological distress in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also worked under Dr. Tiffany Yip in the Youth Development in Diverse Contexts (YDDC) lab, particularly on the Fordham University Sleep Study. Courtney is currently a postgraduate associate with the Anticevic Lab and aims to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in the future.

Clara Fonteneau recently graduated with a PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of Lyon in France, where she studied under the supervision of Dr MF Suaud-Chagny in the PSYR2 Team of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. Her thesis work focused on understanding the brain mechanisms underlying transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in healthy and clinical populations. More specifically, she investigated this question on a mechanistic level relating the impact of frontal tDCS montages to the dopaminergic system, combining tDCS with several imaging techniques (e.g., PET, resting-state fMRI, ASL, DTI).Currently, she is working as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Anticevic Lab affiliated with the Division of Neurocognition, Neurocomputation & Neurogenetics (N3) at Yale University. Her work focuses on translational approaches from computational models to multimodal neuroimaging in healthy controls and patients, specifically focusing on 1) common mechanisms across neuropsychiatric disorders (transnosographic approach) and 2) individual variability.

Amber is a PhD student in the Interdepartment Neuroscience Program and is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Alan Anticevic and Dr. John Murray. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Psychology and Computer Sciences. During her undergraduate career, she studied under Dr. Ned Kalin at the Harlow Primate Lab investigating anxious temperament in rhesus macaques. Her honors thesis explored how early adverse events affect the development of psychopathology later in life. After graduation, Amber extended her research to explore psychopathology in humans using MRI under Dr. Cameron Carter in the Translational Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at UC-Davis. Amber then moved to Stanford University to work under Dr. Manish Sagger in the Brain Dynamics Lab to study the applications of topological data analysis in computational neuropsychiatry. Currently, Amber is focused on using empirical and theoretical tools to understand thalamocortical systems in health and disease.

Masih Rahmati, Associate Research Scientist, started his research in computational psychiatry in 2021 by joining Anticevic Lab at the Neurocognition, Neurocomputation, and Neurogenetics (N3) group at the department of Psychiatry at Yale. Masih studies the underlying neural mechanisms in neuropsychiatric disorders through computational modeling of neural population dynamics in patients suffering from psychiatric disorders as well as healthy control subjects. Masih received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from New York University, where he studied the neural dynamics of visual short term memory in healthy human subjects. He focused his research on integrating neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG) techniques with theoretical and computational approaches including encoding models, probabilistic population codes (PPC), and dynamical field theory (DFT).

Nicole graduated from the University of New Haven with a Master’s in Community Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Services. After working for 4 years in prodromal psychosis research at Yale she joined the Anticevic Lab in 2013 as a Research Project Coordinator. She now manages the Clinical and Administrative Operations of the Division of Neurocognition, Neurocomputation, and Neurogenetics (N3).

Catrin graduated from Northeastern University in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in behavioral neuroscience and a minor in cultural anthropology. As an undergraduate, she spent a semester working under Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab beta-testing an ecological momentary assessment tool for a daily diary study on recall of affective states. She also completed two six-month full-time internships in the Clinical Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab at Yale led by Dr. Dylan Gee, where she tracked participant progress in a longitudinal neuroimaging study of anxiety mitigation in children, and the Lee Lab at Harvard Medical School led by Dr. Wei-Chung Allen Lee, where she traced neurons in electron microscopy datasets to map decision-making cortex in mouse and olfactory lobe in mosquito. Catrin is interested in clinical neuropsychology and aims to pursue a PhD.