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Nicole Popp Santamauro is a Researcher at Yale University, affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. She serves as the Lab Manager for the Cho Lab and Anticevic Lab, focusing on neurocognitive and neuropharmacological research. Her work explores schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the effects of ketamine on brain connectivity and cognitive functions. Santamauro holds a Master’s in Community Psychology from the University of New Haven.
- Education: MA in Community Psychology, University of New Haven (2009)
- Research Focus: Cognitive neuroscience, neuropharmacology, psychiatric disorders, and the impact of incentive mechanisms on working memory.
Her research has contributed to understanding neural mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and the use of ketamine as a pharmacological model. Santamauro collaborates with prominent researchers like John Krystal and Anticevic, publishing extensively on functional connectivity, reward systems, and clinical interventions.
Key contributions include studies on ketamine’s effects on brain networks and the application of incentive-based paradigms to improve cognitive performance in psychiatric populations. She is a Sub-Investigator in clinical trials examining biomarkers of treatment response in obsessive-compulsive disorder.