Department Of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Investigator
Kiyohito Iigaya, PhD
Email
ki2151@columbia.edu
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, affiliated with the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and the Zuckerman Institute. Our lab aims to identify computational principles underlying learning and decision-making behavior and inform our understanding of mental disorders by studying variations in their neural realization (computational psychiatry). To this end, we bridge computational models that target various levels of analysis, including the algorithms (e.g., reinforcement learning models) and their neural implementations (e.g., neural circuit models). We test our models' predictions in our empirical studies with human participants (e.g., fMRI) and through close collaborations with basic and clinical neuroscience/psychiatry laboratories.

Clinical Studies Managed By This Investigator:
Condition Study Title
Healthy Volunteers Human Memory and Decision Making - Healthy Volunteers
Healthy Volunteers Studying Neural Mechanisms of Behavior and Cognition via Computer-Based Tasks (Ages 18-60)
Psychiatric Disorders Studies of Behavior and Cognition (Participants with Schizophrenia)