Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Cortes-Briones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, Technical Director of MEG Imaging for Neuropsychiatric Disorders (MIND) Center at the West Haven VA Healthcare System, and a member of the Schizophrenia Neuropharmacology Research Group at Yale (SNRGY) as well as the Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (YC-SCAN2). His primary research interests include understanding the changes in brain dynamics underlying the acute effects of psychoactive substances such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and ketamine, as well as auditory verbal hallucinations in individuals with schizophrenia. His current work focuses on applying machine learning algorithms to transcribe inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations from their electrophysiological correlates, reconstructing fetal electroencephalographic (EEG) data from signals collected noninvasively from the maternal abdomen, and using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the acute effects of THC on information transmission, modification, and storage in the human brain, as well as the changes in excitatory-to-inhibitory balance in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.