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Hyojung Seo serves as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine with secondary appointments in the Department of Neuroscience and multiple interdisciplinary programs. Her primary affiliation is with the Department of Psychiatry where she maintains an active research laboratory focused on decision neuroscience. She also holds positions within the Center for Brain & Mind Health, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Neuroscience Track, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology, and Wu Tsai Institute.
Dr. Seo earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Psychology from Seoul National University before completing her PhD in behavioral neuroscience with research on the neurophysiology of the oculomotor system. She continued her work in decision neuroscience through postdoctoral and associate research scientist positions at Yale University, joining the Department of Psychiatry as an assistant professor in 2016 and advancing to associate professor.
Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, with particular emphasis on reinforcement learning, strategic reasoning during social interactions, prefrontal cortex function, and psychiatric disorders. The Seo Laboratory investigates how neural circuits process rewards and losses, with recent work examining ketamine's effects on decision-making and hierarchical neural timescales in the forebrain. Her approach integrates computational modeling with neurophysiological and behavioral techniques to understand both healthy cognition and psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.
Dr. Seo's publication record shows consistent contributions to high-impact journals including Science, Neuron, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her work demonstrates an evolving trajectory from basic neurophysiology of decision-making to clinically relevant investigations of psychiatric treatments, with recent publications emphasizing computational psychiatry approaches and neural circuit mechanisms relevant to mental health.
She actively contributes to peer review for The Journal of Neuroscience and participates in brain research initiatives through institutional committees. Her laboratory maintains collaborative relationships across Yale's neuroscience and psychiatry communities, particularly through the Wu Tsai Institute and computational psychiatry initiatives.
