Youngsun Cho, MD/PhD
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Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Youngsun T. Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. She is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. She holds an MD/PhD degree from the University of Rochester, and completed dissertation work on amygdala neuroanatomy and reward processing using fMRI. She completed psychiatry residency in the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) at Yale, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center.
Her current research focuses on the development of cognitive and motivational brain circuits in adolescents with depression and adolescents with schizophrenia using fMRI, and pharmacologic neuroimaging to identify mechanisms of potential treatments. Her work is funded by the NIMH, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
Appointments
Child Study Center
Assistant ProfessorFully JointPsychiatry
Assistant ProfessorFully Joint
Other Departments & Organizations
- Division of Neurocognition, Neurocomputation & Neurogenetics
- Anticevic Lab
- Center for Brain & Mind Health
- Child Study Center
- Cho Lab
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Janeway Society
- Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
- Psychiatry
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
Education & Training
- MD/PhD
- Univ of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry (2013)
- MS
- University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry (2009)
- BS
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)
Board Certifications
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Certification Organization
- AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Original Certification Date
- 2019
Psychiatry
- Certification Organization
- AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
- Original Certification Date
- 2017
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News
- April 12, 2024
Spring 2024 postgraduate associate travel award recipients announced
- January 30, 2024
ASCI Recognizes Early-career Yale Faculty and Trainees
- January 17, 2024
Cho Honored With 2024 Young Physician-Scientist Award
- October 20, 2023
Cho, Favuzzi, Girgenti, Keding, Westwater Awarded BBRF Young Investigator Grants