Dr. Ifat Levy

Biography

Ifat Levy is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine, where she also serves as the Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Department of Comparative Medicine. Her research interests focus on the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, particularly emphasizing individual differences in these mechanisms and the potential contributions of decision traits to pathological behavior. She employs a variety of methodologies, including behavioral economics, functional MRI, eye tracking, and physiological measurements, to examine areas such as decision-making under uncertainty and value learning. Her studies explore behavioral and neural correlates of decision-making across different populations, including comparisons between obese and lean individuals regarding risk and ambiguity in decision parameters. Additionally, she is engaged in medical research addressing issues related to aging, child/adolescent health, and obesity.

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