Dr. George Dragoi

Biography

George Dragoi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a member of the Wu-Tsai Institute at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Grigore Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi, Romania, and his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neural Science from Rutgers University. He completed postdoctoral studies as a Research Scientist at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Dragoi's research investigates how learned information is not encoded in isolation, but rather as an integrated network of pre-existing knowledge stored in neuronal ensemble connectivity. His work focuses on understanding memory formation and spatial behavior, with implications for neuro-psychiatric diseases. His current research aims to map neural circuits and decipher neuronal codes underlying memory formation and representation in the brain, using large-scale electrophysiology and computational methods. He is particularly interested in the hippocampus and its role in episodic memory and spatial-temporal sequence representations.

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