Poitras Center Researchers
Principal Investigators
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Guoping Feng
Guoping Feng is using molecular and systems neuroscience to pursue the complex neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders.
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John Gabrieli
John Gabrieli uses brain imaging to better understand changes in the human brain that accompany psychiatric disorders.
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Feng Zhang
Feng Zhang is using CRISPR-based technologies to target genetic mutations linked to psychiatric disease.
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Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Research Affiliate Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli studies the brain basis of psychiatric disorders with the goal of translating this knowledge into clinical practice.
Fellows
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Tamar Regev
Poitras Center Fellow, Fedorenko Lab
Tamar Regev studies speech and language processing in the brain and how these systems are impaired in neuropsychological disorders such as schizophrenia.