Chiang-Shan Ray Li, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience
Departments & Organizations
Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Research Clinic
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience: Neural Disorders
Office of Cooperative Research
Biography
I am a Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience at Yale University School of Medicine. I graduated from National Taiwan University College of Medicine and California Institute of Technology and has been a faculty member at Yale since 2003. My earlier work employed non-human primate models to understand the neural bases of cognition. Current research in my laboratory continues to focus on systems neuroscience. By combining psychophysics, computational modeling and brain imaging we explore the circuit mechanisms of a multitude of cognitive constructs, including self control, affect regulation, and reward-related processes. The primary goals are to understand systems neural bases of these cognitive processes and how these neural processes contribute to the etiology of psychiatric and neurological illnesses, with a specific emphasis on addiction.
Education & Training
| PhD | California Institute of Technology, Computation and Neural Systems (1996) |
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| MD | National Taiwan University, Medicine (1989) |
| Resident | Chang Gung Memorial Hospital |
| Postdoctoral Associate | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Honors & Recognition
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Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2016)
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Fellow, Association of Psychological Science (2016)
Professional Service
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NIH (2017 - Present) Member
