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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Bio ItemVansh Bansal , bio
Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology, College of Science
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Bio ItemRebecca Faubion-Trejo , bio
Lab Manager and Research Coordinator
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Bio ItemCaroline Harrop , bio
Research Assistant
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Bio ItemJulia Julien , bio
Research Assistant
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Bio ItemJacob Lee , bio
Research Programmer
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Bio ItemKatie McCurry, Ph.D. , bio
Postdoctoral Associate
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Bio ItemNatalie Melville , bio
Graduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Bio ItemMark Orloff , bio
Graduate Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
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Bio ItemMercedes Robinson , bio
Medical Student, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine '20
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Bio ItemNanda Sankarasubramanian , bio
Clinical Research Coordinator/Associate
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Bio ItemKatherine Senn , bio
Lab Manager and Research Coordinator
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Bio ItemJohn Wang, Ph.D. , bio
Postdoctoral Associate
Collaborators
- Kevin McKee, Ph.D., Postdoctral Statistician, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Virginia Tech
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