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.

Feng Zhang is using CRISPR-based technologies to target genetic mutations linked to psychiatric disease.

Poitras Center Fellow, Harnett Lab

Cynthia Rais is studying the brain network and synaptic-level effect of a therapeutic dose of ketamine, a potential treatment for psychiatric diseases.