Clara Freeman

Clara Freeman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at the Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying mental health, with an emphasis on reward processing, depression, stress, and intergenerational transmission of psychiatric risks. She employs neuroimaging techniques to explore how environmental and biological factors influence brain activity in clinical and developmental populations.

Her work bridges translational neuroscience and clinical practice, addressing topics such as pandemic impacts on neural reward systems, maternal mental health effects on infants, and social feedback dynamics in adolescents. She has collaborated on studies using PET and MRI to investigate neurobiological correlates of addiction, depression, and developmental disorders. Freeman's contributions include commentary on advancing translational neurophysiology research methodologies.

Awards: None explicitly listed in text. Key grants and lab affiliations are unspecified but likely tied to Yale School of Medicine imaging facilities.