Dr. Matthew Girgenti

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Matthew Girgenti is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in the fields of neuroscience and molecular biology. He is a member of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry at the Wu Tsai Institute, and also serves as a Research Scientist at the VA-NCPTSD Research Center at the West Haven VA Medical Center. He received his PhD in molecular neuroscience from the University of Connecticut and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale focusing on molecular psychiatry. His research is primarily centered on the genomic studies of postmortem human brain tissue, with a particular emphasis on understanding neurobiological mechanisms involved in major brain and behavioral disorders including depression, PTSD, and alcohol use disorder. Girgenti's ongoing projects aim to explore cell type-specific genomic alterations in the brains of individuals with stress-related disorders utilizing human-derived datasets. He has published extensively on the effects of genetic variations in neuropsychiatric disorders and has contributed significantly to the understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder through comprehensive genomic studies.

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