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Dr. Yip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the Director of the Yale Imaging Psychopharmacology (YIP) research group. Her research employs neurocomputational methods to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying addictions and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Yip has received funding from multiple NIH institutes, including NIDA, NIAAA, and NIMH, as well as international funding sources such as the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Ongoing NIH-funded projects under her leadership involve large-scale connectivity-based analyses of developmental neuroimaging datasets, focusing on individuals undergoing treatment for opioid-use disorder. Alongside her collaborators, she is leading a $20 million NIH U01 award as part of the IMPACT-MH initiative, aimed at recruiting a transdiagnostic sample of 2,400 individuals for longitudinal phenotyping using a mix of computational and behavioral tasks, along with natural language processing and clinical assessments.
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