Alex Kwan Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience

Expertise: 

Decision-making; cortical circuits; mouse models of mental illnesses

Description: 

Research in the Kwan lab focuses on the mouse prefrontal cortex. We are interested in how circuit mechanism enable flexible decision-making, and how network dysfunctions underlie stress-related disorders. Our expertise lies in developing and applying optical methods to record and control neural activity in behaving mice.

Contact
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203-785-4507