Chiu Lab
Led by principal investigator Pearl Chiu, Ph.D., the Chiu Laboratory examines the neuroscience of human motivation and social decision-making. Dr. Chiu’s work is also at the forefront of Computational Psychiatry, an emerging field that broadly applies quantitative model-based understandings of neural functioning to understand the neural and behavioral decision-making processes that break down in mental illness.
Ongoing projects use multiple methods, including behavioral tasks, self-report, clinical interviews, computational models, and functional neuroimaging to:
- Study the neural substrates of how, when, and why humans make and change their decisions;
- Detail how these neurobehavioral systems are affected in disorders marked by difficulties in motivated decision-making (e.g., major depression, addiction, PTSD, autism)
- Develop biologically-informed interventions to remediate these functional deficits.
A study to understand how feelings related to depression or anxiety may affect how the brain makes decisions.
A study to understand how people with and without a range of difficulties process different kinds of information.
Teenager Brain Imaging Study
A brain research study of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 14.5.
Neuroscience of Social Behavior Study
A study to understand how people with and without a range of interpersonal difficulties process different kinds of information.
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Bio ItemVansh Bansal , bio
Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology, College of Science
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Bio ItemLeonardo S. Barbosa, Ph.D. , bio
Research Associate
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Bio ItemCarey Caldwell , bio
Research Assistant and Lab Manager
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Bio ItemGrace Collins , bio
Research Assistant
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Bio ItemRebecca Faubion-Trejo , bio
Lab Manager and Research Coordinator
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Bio ItemShivani Goyal , bio
Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology
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Bio ItemClare Hogan , bio
Research Assistant
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Bio ItemJacob Lee , bio
Research Programmer
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Bio ItemNatalie Melville , bio
Graduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Bio ItemOlivia Murray , bio
Research Assistant
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Bio ItemGates Palissery , bio
Graduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Bio ItemNanda Sankarasubramanian , bio
Clinical Research Coordinator/Associate
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Bio ItemAmruta Turlapati , bio
Research Programmer
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Bio ItemJohn Wang, Ph.D. , bio
Research Scientist
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Bio ItemShuhan Wang , bio
Graduate Student, Biological Psychology
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Bio ItemKelsey Winkeler , bio
Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology
Collaborators
- Kevin McKee, Ph.D., Postdoctral Statistician, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Virginia Tech
- Katherine McCurry, Ph.D., Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
- Mark Orloff, Ph.D., Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
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