Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Affect, Memories and Stress (CAMS) Lab, Psychiatry
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.
Zihan is interested in investigating the effect of emotional states on memory, particularly through the dopaminergic system, using pupillometry and brain imaging. In this regard, his cat's name is 'dopa'. Zihan received his bachelor of science degree at The Ohio State University in 2022 and went on to obtain his master's degree in psychology from the University of Chicago in 2023. During his undergraduate, he worked with Dr. Julie Golomb on the influence of background scenes on object-location binding. As a master student, he worked with Dr. Yuan Chang Leong on the prediction of dynamic affective states in naturalistic settings.
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. With the CAMS Lab, Julia is examining the neural mechanisms supporting encoding of emotional memories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joe is an undergraduate studying Cognitive Science at Yale. In the CAMS Lab, he is working on a project exploring how memory and generalization capabilities are impacted by alcohol use. Outside of research, Joe enjoys making music, playing sports, and watching movies.
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
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
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.
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.
Brynn was a PhD student in Psychology at Yale where she worked primarily with Nick Turk-Browne. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with Anna Schapiro.
Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience
Research Interests
Attention
Decision Making
Perception
Neurobiology
Memory
Psychiatry and Psychology
Marvin M. Chun is the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology with a secondary appointment in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience. He is also a member of the Yale Cognitive Science Program. He leads a cognitive neuroscience laboratory that uses brain imaging and machine learning to study how people see, attend, remember, and perform optimally. One line of work uses brain imaging to read out perceptions and thoughts. Another focus is to use brain imaging to understand and predict what makes people different [projects][press]. He received his B.A. from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, after having spent a junior year abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by postdoctoral training at Harvard University, funded by an NIH NRSA. His research has been...
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
Radiology
Neurosurgery
Neuroimaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging
Anatomy
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.
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.
Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Director, PTSD Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment; Deputy Director, Evaluation Division at the National Center for PTSD, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Research Interests
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Veterans
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Psychotherapy
Psychiatry
Biomarkers, Pharmacological
Anxiety Disorders
Afghanistan
Depression
Mental Health Services
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Iraq
Dr. Harpaz-Rotem is a Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology at Yale University. He is a clinical psychologist who, for many years, has conducted research and provided treatment to individuals exposed to trauma. Dr. Harpaz-Rotem serves as an investigator at the National Center for PTSD, and he also directs the evaluation of VA PTSD treatment programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Northeast Program Evaluation Center, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, VA Central Office. Research into how to modify traumatic memories and their associated emotions is one of the core questions that guide his work.
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity; Co-director, Science Fellows Program
Research Interests
Central Nervous System
Cerebral Cortex
Basal Ganglia
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
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.
Sam earned his PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University, and did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. He runs the Action, Computation, and Thinking (ACT) lab at Yale's department of psychology. The ACT lab uses psychophysical, computational, and neurophysiological techniques to investigate human learning and memory, with a focus on the intersection of cognition and motor control. Recent work has focused on how motor skill learning involves an interaction between executive functions and low-level processes, on mapping and modeling this interaction, and on exploring its effects on decision-making and reinforcement learning. Sam also likes playing folk music (fiddle, mandolin, & guitar).
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...
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Laboratory for Healthy Minds; Director of Clinical Neuroimaging, Yale Stress Center
Dr. Seo received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus in 2008. She is interested in conducting interdisciplinary research to understand the etiology of stress-related clinical disorders and facilitate the development of effective treatment strategies for stress-related diseases.
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
Neurosciences
Neurobiology
Psychiatry
Psychiatry and Psychology
Stress, Psychological
Substance-Related Disorders
Child Psychiatry
Chronic Disease
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...
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, of Psychology and of Neuroscience
Research Interests
Behavior
Mental Disorders
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Motivation
Jane Taylor obtained her BSc in Experimental Psychology/Neuroscience from the University of Sussex, UK and went on to receive her PhD at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She then joined the Department of Psychiatry at Yale as a post-doctoral fellow, then an Associate Research Scientist, then Associate Professor 2008 and becoming a full Professor (Charles B.G. Murphy) in 2008, with secondary appointments in the Psychology and Neuroscience departments.My research program aims to integrate basic with translational neuroscience approaches to understand neurocognition and behavior through collaborate research. The lab studies brain limbic cortico-striatal circuitry involved in decision-making, inhibitory control, habits, motivation, memory and reinforcement learning, and the impact of sex differences on behavior in both normal and pathophysiological states. We...
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 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. Nick’s 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...
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.