Professor Dr. Tyrone Cannon

Biography

Tyrone Cannon is the Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also contributes to the Department of Psychiatry. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Southern California. His research broadly explores the interplay between psychological-level phenomena and neurobiological mechanisms that relate to disturbances in perception, belief, motivation, and emotional processing in individuals with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Cannon conducts longitudinal studies of risk populations, focusing on various phases of illness and studying twin pairs with concordant and discordant illness phenotypes. He is particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms that underlie the emergence of psychosis during adolescence and early adulthood and is dedicated to developing effective intervention and prevention strategies that target these mechanisms. His methodological approaches encompass structural, functional, metabolic, and neurochemical brain imaging, alongside neurocognitive assessments and quantitative molecular genetics.

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