Poitras Center Researchers

Jim DiCarlo is pioneering a novel, vision-based approach to treating anxiety by designing visual scenes that subtly shift emotional brain activity.

Guoping Feng is using molecular and systems neuroscience to pursue the complex neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders.

John Gabrieli uses brain imaging to better understand changes in the human brain that accompany psychiatric disorders.

Nancy Kanwisher collaborates with Ev Fedorenko and McLean scientists to identify neural signatures of impaired reasoning and disrupted inner voice in schizophrenia.

Research Affiliate Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli studies the brain basis of psychiatric disorders with the goal of translating this knowledge into clinical practice.

Fan Wang is exploring whether a genetic model of schizophrenia disrupts how the brain represents personal space and distance, offering insight into the neural basis of spatial perception disorders in mental illness.

Feng Zhang is developing a compact new gene-editing tool capable of precisely correcting single-letter DNA mutations, with the goal of enabling gene therapies for conditions like complex neurological disorders in which current editing tools are too large to deliver effectively.

Amrita Lamba investigates the neurocomputational processes that humans use to learn about their social world, and how these processes break down in people with anxiety and depression.

Hoonwon Lee is mapping functional network of traumatic fear memories across the whole brain to uncover molecular and cellular targets for anxiety-related disorders.

Karen Pang is working to develop novel bioelectronic tools to study how gut-brain interactions influence anxiety and mood-related brain functions.

Smriti Saina is studying the structural connectivity of the brain to identify imaging biomarkers that can predict treatment response in individuals with social anxiety disorder.