Welcome to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories, and Stress (CAMS) Lab!

We study why we remember certain parts of our experiences, how stress and affect change different memories, and how what we remember guides our behavior.

The lab is led by Dr. Elizabeth Goldfarb. We are based in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale Stress Center and conduct research at the Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center.

We are committed to creating an inclusive, thoughtful, rewarding, and intellectually stimulating environment to conduct our research.

We have openings for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers! Please email Dr. Goldfarb with your CV and interests for more information.

Please note that we primarily accept graduate students through Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program.

In joining the lab, all members agree to promote and uphold the following values:

• We are committed to creating an inclusive, thoughtful, rewarding, and intellectually stimulating environment to conduct our research.
• We are mindful of each other’s individual experiences, interests, and challenges in order to support each other and work together.
• We value everyone’s perspectives and expect members of the lab, in all roles, to be engaged with the questions we are asking.
• We seek to both make psychological discoveries that uncover fundamental truths about the human mind and gain insights that can be used to reduce human suffering.
• We strive to be rigorous, open, curious, and reflective.
• We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any other form of bigotry or discrimination.