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Elvisha Dhamala, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (part of Northwell Health) where she directs the Brain-Based Predictive Modeling Lab (bpmlab.org). Her research program focuses on characterizing the neural bases of human behavior throughout development, with particular interest in sex and gender differences in brain structure, function, and their relationship to mental health.
Dr. Dhamala earned her BSc in Neuroscience in 2017 from McGill University and completed her PhD in Neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medicine in 2021, working in the Computational Connectomics Lab. She then completed postdoctoral training at Yale University in the Holmes Lab as the inaugural Kavli Institute for Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity.
Her research interests span neuroscience, psychiatry, sex and gender differences, neurodevelopment, mental health, and machine learning. She has been particularly active in advocating for open neuroscience data practices, recently publishing an essay warning about threats to open data in neuroscience research. Her work integrates computational approaches with neuroimaging to understand brain-behavior relationships across development.
- Kavli Institute for Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity
Dr. Dhamala actively mentors students and collaborates with researchers across institutions. Her lab focuses on developing predictive models of brain-behavior relationships with emphasis on sex and gender differences. She has been involved in research examining barriers to adolescent participation in neuroscience studies and promoting diversity in neuroscience research.
The Brain-Based Predictive Modeling Lab serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry, and computational modeling, with a mission to advance understanding of how brain development relates to mental health outcomes across diverse populations.
