Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience
Field:
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.