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.
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Vansh Bansal , bioGraduate Student, Clinical Psychology, College of Science
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Rebecca Faubion-Trejo , bioLab Manager and Research Coordinator
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Caroline Harrop , bioResearch Assistant
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Julia Julien , bioResearch Assistant
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Jacob Lee , bioResearch Programmer
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Katie McCurry, Ph.D. , bioPostdoctoral Associate
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Natalie Melville , bioGraduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Mark Orloff , bioGraduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Mercedes Robinson , bioMedical Student, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine '20
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Katherine Senn , bioLab Manager and Research Coordinator
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John Wang, Ph.D. , bioPostdoctoral Associate
Collaborators
- Kevin McKee, Ph.D., Postdoctral Statistician, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Virginia Tech
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