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  • Principal Investigator

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab, Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Alcohol Drinking
    • Association Learning
    • Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
    • Emotions
    • Glucocorticoids
    • Habits
    • Stress, Physiological
    • Stress, Psychological
    • Substance-Related Disorders
    • Memory, Long-Term
    • Functional Neuroimaging
    • Memory, Episodic
    Dr. Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and member of the Wu Tsai Institute. She completed her PhD in Psychology: Cognition & Perception with Dr. Elizabeth Phelps at New York University and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry with Dr. Rajita Sinha at Yale. Her research investigates different forms of learning and memory, how stress changes which parts of our experiences we remember, and the impact of memory on later behavior.
  • Postgraduate Associate

    Yuliana received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Temple University in May 2025. As an undergraduate, she worked with Dr. Jason Chein on projects exploring targeted memory reactivation and interventions for distinguishing human- from AI-generated information. She also worked with Dr. Lauren Alloy investigating depression and bipolar disorder in adolescence. Her research interests focus on how stress influences memory and on the neural mechanisms through which trauma shapes behavior.
  • PhD student, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (co-mentored)

    Jean is a graduate student in the CAMS and Scheinost labs. With the CAMS lab, Jean is exploring neural mechanisms supporting dynamic affective states in healthy populations and psychopathology, and their consequences for encoding and memory.
  • PhD Student, Psychology (co-mentored)

    Irene is a graduate student in the psychology department, where she works primarily with Nick Turk-Browne. In the CAMS Lab, Irene is examining how acute stress influences different forms of hippocampal learning.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

  • Yurim is an undergraduate studying Neuroscience and Applied Math at Yale. In CAMS Lab, her research focuses on the relationship between stress and memory. Before coming to Yale, she worked as an intern in the Neurology department at Samsung Medical Center, researching spatial awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia patients, and was awarded 1st place by the American Psychological Association at the 2023 International Science Engineering Fair for developing a novel method to assess the spatial abnormalities of ADD patients through the Line Quadrisection Test. She plans to earn a PhD in Clinical Psychology.
  • Nicholas is an undergraduate studying Cognitive Science and History at Yale. In the CAMS Lab, his research focuses on memory-guided attention and the effects of stress on cognitive efficiency.
  • Joe is an undergraduate studying Cognitive Science at Yale. In the CAMS Lab, his research focuses on associative learning and knowledge generalization. Outside of research, Joe enjoys making music, playing sports, and watching movies.

Join our team!

Interested in joining the lab for a PhD or postdoc? We primarily accept graduate students through Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. For potential postdocs, please contact Dr. Goldfarb directly with your CV and cover letter describing your interest in the lab.

Alumni

  • Beatriz De Souza Lobo Morgado Horta

    Undergraduate Researcher, 2021-2023

  • Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2025

    Sarah Feng is an undergraduate studying Neuroscience and Humanities at Yale. At the CAMS Lab, she works on a project exploring trauma's effects on competing memory systems. Outside of research, Sarah enjoys reading poetry, visiting art galleries, and hiking.

  • Bailey Harris

    Postgraduate Associate, 2020-2022

    Bailey was the first member of the CAMS Lab! She was the lab manager, where she assisted with multiple projects and focused on the effects of cortisol on neural mechanisms supporting encoding and later alcohol use. She is now a PhD student at UCLA working with Dave Clewett.

  • Flory Huang

    Postgraduate Associate, 2022-2023

    Flory was a PGA in the CAMS Lab, where she investigated the relationship between dynamic brain connectivity and memory. She is now a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Janice Chen and Chris Honey.

    Flory graduated cum laude from the University of California, San Diego in June 2021 and obtained her master's degree in psychology from the University of Chicago in June 2022. As an undergraduate, she worked with Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige on investigating genetic predictors of substance use disorders. As a master's student, she worked with Dr. Akram Bakkour on how reward and positive affect influence memory and decision-making. Flory is interested in how emotion influences memory in different perspectives and timeframes.

  • Isabella Huang

    Undergraduate Researcher, 2021-2023

    Isabella Huang is an undergraduate majoring in Neuroscience at Yale. Isabella works in the Nicholas Turk-Browne lab and the CAMs lab under Elizabeth Goldfarb primarily studying learning and memory as well as the effects of stress on them.

  • Sanghoon Kang

    Postgraduate Associate, 2021-2023

    Sanghoon was a PGA in the CAMS Lab, where he developed new behavioral tasks to investigate memory generalization and habit formation in risky drinking. He is now a PhD student in Psychology at Yale working with Sam McDougle.

    Sanghoon graduated summa cum laude from Seoul National University, February of 2021. As an undergraduate, he worked with Dr. Chey in the Clinical Neuroscience Lab, and with Dr. Ahn in the Computational Clinical Science Lab. During his time there, he worked on projects concerning the role of context in memory modification, and the role of the hippocampus in decision-making. He aims to build on this interest concerning the adaptability of memory, by understanding it in the context of other cognitive/affective processes, including but not limited to stress, contextual cognition and decision-making.

  • Grace Larrabee

    Undergraduate Researcher, 2021-2022; Postgraduate Associate, 2023

  • DT Nguyen

    Postgraduate Associate, 2022-2024

    DT was a PGA in the CAMS Lab who focused on alterations in memory and attention in PTSD. DT is now a PhD student in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia working with Nicole Long.

  • Julia Pratt

    Postgraduate Associate, 2023-2025

    Julia was a PGA in the CAMS Lab, where she examined the nature of memories for real-world emotional experiences. She is now a PhD student at UCLA working with Jesse Rissman.


    Julia received a Bachelor of Science in Psychological and Brain Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Throughout her undergraduate career, she researched emotional memory and perception with Dr. Regina Lapate and Dr. Nicole Albada.

  • Undergraduate Researcher, 2023-2025

    Lusangelis (she/her) is an undergraduate majoring in Neuroscience and pursuing a Global Health Studies certificate at Yale. In the CAMS Lab, she is a research assistant for a project assessing the impacts of acute stress on statistical learning and episodic memory. Aside from research, Lusangelis loves to paint, sing at the top of her lungs, binge-watch reality TV shows, and critically analyze systems of power in society.

  • Arianna Rodriguez

    Visiting Undergraduate Student, 2022

    Arianna was a visiting student from the University of Puerto Rico in Summer 2022 as part of the WTI Summer Scholars Program. She is now a graduate student in Yale's Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program.

  • Graduate Student (co-mentored), 2020-2022

    Brynn was a PhD student in Psychology at Yale where she worked primarily with Nick Turk-Browne. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania with Anna Schapiro, Brynn is now an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University.

  • Elaine Wijaya

    Undergraduate Researcher, 2022-2024

Yale Collaborators

  • Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Professor of Neurosurgery; Co-Director MRI Research Center, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Research Interests
    • Anatomy
    • Diagnostic Imaging
    • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • Neurosurgery
    • Radiology
    • Neuroimaging
    Dr. Constable received his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Toronto. He came to Yale as a postdoctoral fellow and has been here since. In addition to being the director of MRI in the Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center, he runs two parallel labs. One lab is a neuroscience lab focused on mapping the functional organization of the brain through functional MRI measurements and understanding the relationship between this functional organization and behavior. Such developments are leading to new approaches to functionally phenotype individuals with applications in subtyping in brain disorders and disease. Dr. Constable's other lab is focused on the development of novel MRI devices with projects around low field MRI's that can be placed in doctor's offices, with the potential to make MRI much more accessible than it is in it's current form.
  • Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry; Biostatistician & Director of Quantitative Analytic Core, Yale Stress Center

    Dr. Fogelman is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Stress Center where she completed her Post Doctoral training. She earned her PhD in Integrative Neuroscience at Stony Brook University, SUNY with an advanced certificate in Quantitative Methods. Her research examines the relationships between stress, substance abuse, and clinically relevant health markers.
  • Professor

    Dr. Dylan Gee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She received her B.A. in Psychological and Brain Studies from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA. Dr. Gee completed her clinical internship and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research focuses on child and adolescent brain development in the context of developmental psychopathology, with a particular focus on neurobiological mechanisms related to early adversity and risk for anxiety and stress-related disorders. Dr. Gee’s research has been funded by the NSF, NIMH, a NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Award.
  • Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD

    Research Interests
    • Alcoholism
    • Drug Therapy
    • Genetics
    • Neurobiology
    • Psychiatry
    • Schizophrenia
    • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
    • Veterans
    • Neuroimaging
    Dr. Krystal is a leading expert on the neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders. His work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and computational neuroscience to study the neurobiology and treatment of disorders including alcohol use disorder, depression, PTSD, and schizophrenia. He is best known for leading the discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients. Within Yale, he chairs the Department of Psychiatry, serves as Chief of Psychiatry for the Yale-New Haven Health System, co-leads the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (CTSA), co-directs the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol, and leads the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for PTSD (VA). In addition to his roles at Yale, he serves as editor of Biological Psychiatry, Vice-President of the Scientific Council for the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, as a Scientific Advisory Board member of Aligning Research to Impact Autism, and in numerous other advisory capacities for government agencies, academia initiatives, private foundations, and pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies. He also co-founded Freedom Biosciences, a company devoted to addressing the limitations of current rapid-acting antidepressants. Dr. Krystal previously co-chaired (2018-2024) the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He also served on the Department of Defense Psychological Health Advisory Committee, the National Advisory Councils for the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors (chair, 2005-2007). He has led the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (president, 2012), and International College of Neuropsychophamacology (president, 2016-2018).
  • Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity; Co-director, Science Fellows Program

    Research Interests
    • Basal Ganglia
    • Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
    • Central Nervous System
    • Cerebral Cortex
    I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, in individual differences in these mechanisms, and in the possible contribution of decision traits to pathological behavior. Our research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, and on value learning and encoding. To study these topics we combine behavioral economics methods with functional MRI, as well as eye tracking and physiological measurements.
  • Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

    Dustin Scheinost, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics & Data Science, and at the Yale Child Study Center. The Multi-modal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, & Data Science (MINDS) Lab’s research is three-fold. First, using state-of-the-art research for connectomics, we aim to develop novel statistical and machine learning methods for functional connectivity to meet challenges arising with the “big” neuroscience data. Second, the MINDS lab helps lead development of BioImage Suite Web (BISWeb; https://bioimagesuiteweb.github.io/webapp/), integrated image analysis webapp. Third, we are at the cutting edge of early life neuroimaging, focusing on the development of the brain’s functional organization in fetuses, neonates, and infants. We are a founding member of Fetal, Infant, Toddler Neuroimaging Group (FIT’NG). This research has been supported by NIMH, NIAA, NIDA, and NHLBI.
  • Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience; Deputy Chair of Psychiatry for Psychology, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center; Chief, Psychology Section in Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Chronic Disease
    • Neurobiology
    • Neurosciences
    • Psychiatry
    • Stress, Psychological
    • Substance-Related Disorders
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
    Rajita Sinha, Ph.D. is the Foundations Fund Endowed Professor in Psychiatry, and Professor in Neuroscience and in Child Study at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuroscientist, Deputy Chair of Psychiatry for Psychology and Chief of the Psychology Section in Psychiatry. She is the founding director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center that focuses on understanding the neurobiology and psychology of stress, trauma and resilient versus vulnerable biobehavioral coping mechanisms that promote neuropsychiatric diseases such as alcohol use disorders, substance use disorders, chronic pain, PTSD and other chronic diseases. She has developed novel stress, pain and craving provocation paradigms to understand mechanisms that drive these states and related pathologies and their impact on clinical addiction outcomes in alcohol use disorder, substance use disorders and related conditions. Her lab also develops and tests novel pharmacologic and integrative behavioral approaches to address chronic stress and addiction relapse risk to improve addiction treatment outcomes. These objectives are being accomplished through a series of NIH funded research projects and she has published widely on these topics. She is the 2020 recipient of the Research Society on Alcoholism's Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2020 recipient of the James Tharpe Award for outstanding contributions to Addiction Research. She has served on many NIH special emphasis panels, review committees and workshops, presented at numerous national and international conferences, and her work is widely cited.
  • Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and in the Child Study Center and of Neurosurgery and of Psychiatry and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute

    Nick Turk-Browne is Director of the Wu Tsai Institute and Professor with primary appointment in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and secondary appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and the Child Study Center in the School of Medicine. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (since 2016). Nick obtained an HBSc from the University of Toronto in 2004 and a PhD from Yale University in 2009, then served on the faculty at Princeton University from 2009-2017. His research takes an integrative perspective, using behavioral studies, functional magnetic resonance imaging, intracranial recording/stimulation, and computational modeling to understand how cognitive and neural systems interact in the human brain. He has published extensively on how we perceive and attend to the world, and how we learn from experience and store information in memory. His lab has recently pioneered techniques for brain imaging in awake and behaving infants and toddlers. Nick's work has been published in leading journals and featured in major news outlets. His research has been funded by federal agencies, philanthropic foundations, and corporate partners. He received young investigator awards from the American Psychological Association (2015), Vision Sciences Society (2016), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2017), and Society of Experimental Psychologists (2018), as well as the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2025).
  • Associate Research Scientist, Psychiatry

    Dr. Wemm is a Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Stress Center. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY and her predoctoral internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research investigates how stress impacts substance and behavioral addictions using both laboratory and naturalistic methods.

External Collaborators

Elizabeth Phelps, Harvard University
David Clewett, UCLA
Roshan Cools, Radboud University
Lila Davachi, Columbia University
Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University
Joseph Dunsmoor, UT Austin
Erno Hermans, Radboud University
Monica Rosenberg, University of Chicago
George Slavich, UCLA
Alexa Tompary, University of Pennsylvania
Woo-Young Ahn, Seoul National University