Michelle Hampson

Michelle Hampson is a Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine. She holds secondary appointments as an Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and Psychiatry departments, and directs real-time fMRI research at Yale's Bioimaging Sciences Division.

• Undergraduate: Computing Science, University of Alberta (1993)
• PhD: Cognitive & Neural Systems, Boston University (1999)

Her research focuses on real-time fMRI neurofeedback for clinical populations, particularly targeting disorders like tic disorders, OCD, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and autism. Key technical interests include resting-state functional connectivity analysis and neuroimaging data harmonization across scanners.

Recent publications highlight clinical trials for Tourette Syndrome neurofeedback (2023), OCD treatment (2023), and Parkinson's disease interventions (2022), alongside foundational work on ethical frameworks for neurofeedback (2021) and technical tools like HALO for MR scanner alignment (2022). Her studies frequently appear in Translational Psychiatry, NeuroImage, and Biological Psychiatry.

Collaborators include Dustin Scheinost (Yale MR Core), Denis Sukhodolsky (Child Study Center), John Krystal (Psychiatry), and Michael Bloch (Yale Pediatrics). She leads the Hampson Lab, which develops novel brain imaging paradigms combining resting-state analysis with neurofeedback interventions.