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Lab Members

Leadership

  • Thomas Fernandez, MD

    Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry; Vice Chair for Research, Child Study Center; Co-Director of the Tic and OCD Program, Child Study Center; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Tic Disorders
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Trichotillomania
    • Stereotyped Behavior
    • Stereotypic Movement Disorder
    • Genetics, Behavioral
    • Genetics
    • Compulsive Behavior
    • Anxiety Disorders
    • Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
    • Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
    • Autism Spectrum Disorder
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Obsessive Behavior
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
    • Psychiatry
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Members

Collaborators

  • Michael Bloch, MD, MS

    Harris Professor in the Child Study Center; Director and Co-Founder of the Pediatric Depression Clinic, Child Study Center; Co-Director of the T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Child Study Center; Associate Program Director, Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program, Child Study Center; Co-Director of the Tic and OCD Program, Child Study Center

    Research Interests
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
    • Psychopharmacology
    • Meta-Analysis
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Trichotillomania
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  • Carolina Cappi
  • Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD

    Emily Fraser Beede Professor of Child Psychiatry; Director, Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism Program, Child Study Center; Director, Yale Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic

    Research Interests
    • Psychophysiology
    • Technology
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Attention
    • Autistic Disorder
    • Developmental Disabilities
    • Pediatrics
    • Perception
    • Prodromal Symptoms
    • Human Development
    • Mental Disorders
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  • Abha Gupta, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics/ DBP); Associate Professor, Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Child Study Center

    Research Interests
    • Rare Diseases
    • Neurobiology
    • Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
    • Brain Diseases
    • Autistic Disorder
    • Genetic Research
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  • Tammy Hedderly
  • Ellen J. Hoffman, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor in the Child Study Center

    Research Interests
    • Zebrafish
    • Pharmacology
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurobiology
    • Neuropharmacology
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
    • Genetics
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Autistic Disorder
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  • Eli Lebowitz, PhD

    Associate Professor, Child Study Center; Co-Director Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program, Child Study Center; Faculty, Predoctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology

    Research Interests
    • Anxiety
    • Avoidance Learning
    • Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
    • Mental Disorders
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Fear
    • Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System
    • Neurobiology
    • Technology
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
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  • James Leckman, MD, PhD

    Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Tic Disorders
    • Psychiatry
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
    • Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Global Health
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  • James Noonan, PhD

    Albert E. Kent Professor of Genetics and Professor of Neuroscience; co-Director of Graduate Studies, Genetics

    Research Interests
    • Embryonic and Fetal Development
    • Genetics
    • Evolution, Molecular
    • Genomics
    • Gene Regulatory Networks
    • Epigenomics
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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  • Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD

    Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Learning
    • Basal Ganglia Diseases
    • Phobic Disorders
    • Psychopharmacology
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Trichotillomania
    • Neurobiology
    • Neuroanatomy
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
    • Neurophysiology
    • Neurosciences
    • Molecular Biology
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  • Flora Vaccarino, MD

    Harris Professor in the Child Study Center; Director, Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, Child Study Center; Professor in the Department of Neuroscience

    Research Interests
    • Mosaicism
    • Mice, Inbred Strains
    • Mice, Transgenic
    • Living Donors
    • Patients
    • Organoids
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    • Neural Stem Cells
    • Neuroanatomy
    • Regeneration
    • Schizophrenia
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
    • Tourette Syndrome
    • Human Genetics
    • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
    • Autism Spectrum Disorder
    • Autistic Disorder
    • Developmental Biology
    • Cell Lineage
    • Central Nervous System Diseases
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Contact Us

Address:

Yale Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520

Contact:

Thomas Fernadez, MD
Principal Investigator
Email: thomas.fernandez@yale.edu
Phone: 203-713-3113

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