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Steve Chang is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Yale University, co-Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Neuroscience Major. He holds affiliations with the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Wu Tsai Institute, and Yale MacBrain Resource Center. His research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors, particularly how the prefrontal cortex and amygdala mediate social decisions. He employs electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques, studying primate models to understand social cognition and psychiatric disorders.
Education: PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis (2009). Postdoctoral training at Duke University. Key awards include the Vernon B. Mountcastle Distinguished Fellowship and SANS Innovation Awards (2020, 2022). His lab investigates social gaze dynamics, oxytocin’s role in social behavior, and neural circuits governing prosocial/antisocial decisions.
Publications highlight studies on social cooperation in marmosets, oxytocin-opioid interactions, and thalamic contributions to paranoia. His team includes 10+ graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches. Future work aims to translate neural findings into therapies for social dysfunction.
