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Dr. Wan-Ling Tseng is an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Minnesota and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Her research focuses on irritability in children and adolescents, integrating developmental neuroscience, neuroimaging, and clinical approaches. She leads a lab (YAY Lab) exploring mechanisms of irritability across neural, physiological, and environmental factors.
Education: PhD in Developmental Psychology (University of Minnesota, 2012), Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIMH, 2019).
Research Interests:
- Neural correlates of irritability and frustration
- Cross-cultural comparisons of emotional development
- Impact of neighborhood resources on youth mental health
- Interventions for irritability in clinical populations
Key Awards: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Award, and multiple travel/merit awards from NIH and professional societies.
Grants & Collaborations: Principal investigator on studies examining reward processing and frustration in young adults, and co-investigator on CBT trials for autism-linked irritability. Collaborates with institutions globally on multinational irritability studies.
Labs/Teams: Director of the Ycsc Affective Youth (YAY) Lab, member of the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP), and affiliated with the Janeway Society.
