Jared Van Snellenberg, PhD

Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Broadly speaking, I am interested in how it is that the brain instantiates our internal mental experiences. More specifically, I'm interested in the neural underpinnings of learning and memory, particularly as they related to the disturbances of cognition observed in patients with schizophrenia. The majority of my work employs either neuroimaging techniques to investigate brain function during cognitive task performance in healthy and psychiatryically ill human participants, or employs meta-analysis to summarize and quantify the findings of neuroimaging or other studies of psychiatric populations.

Ongoing projects (for past work, see the PAPERS section):

• The Sylvio O. Conte Center for Dopamine Dysfunction in Schizophrenia (Project 2)
• A Cooperative Drug Discovery Group project involving fMRI imaging on patients with schizophrenia being treated with a novel D1-receptor agonist (DAR-100).
• An Event-Related Potential (ERP) investigation of the role of distractors on recognition and memory for order in working memory (WM) in patients with schizophrenia