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.

Gabrielle graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University studying Cognitive Studies and Psychology. She completed her honors thesis in the Language Development Lab under mentor Dr. Megan Saylor investigating how children's temperament is related to their curiosity. She also worked under Dr. Antonia Kaczkurkin investigating the underlying neurobiological mechanisms involved in internalizing disorders in adolescence. Gabrielle is a curious individual who hopes to continue researching how psychiatric illnesses develop in young people by pursuing a Clinical Psychology PhD in the future.

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.

Hi! My name is Cindy and I am currently pursuing my Master’s in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at University College London, with one year based in the Cho Lab. I previously graduated from the University of Cambridge with a bachelor’s in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences. My research interest lies in studying adolescents with psychosis, through the lens of computational neuroimaging.

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.

Victoria (Tori) is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She obtained her B.S. in Psychology from The University of Alabama in 2020 and completed her Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from The University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2025. Her dissertation focused on using structural MRI scans to perform myelin mapping in first-episode psychosis. Outside the lab, Tori loves going to coffee shops, doing yoga, and going for walks around town with her fiancé Rob and their dogs, Peter and Banks.

Erin graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS in Honors Psychology. She completed her Honors Thesis with Dr. Nicole Landi on a Mispronunciation Correction Task administered in their language lab. She also took multiple neuropsychology and neuropharmacology graduate courses in her time at UConn. Erin is now a postgraduate associate with the Cho Lab and hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical neuropsychology.

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. In 2013, after working for 4 years in prodromal psychosis research at Yale she joined the Division of Neurocognition, Neurocomputation, and Neurogenetics (N3) as a Research Project Coordinator. She now manages the Clinical and Administrative Operations of the Cho Lab.