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Carlezon

Bill Carlezon

Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
McLean Hospital

Dr. Carlezon is primarily interested in the biological basis and treatment of psychiatric illness, specifically nature/nurture issues as they relate to...

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Chartoff

Elena Chartoff

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
Director, Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Laboratory, McLean Hospital

My lab is interested in the molecular and neural circuit-based mechanisms that underlie drug addiction. We are particularly interested in how negative affective states (depression, anxiety, etc) that precede drug taking or emerge with drug withdrawal contribute to addictive behavior. We use rodent models of drug-taking behavior and we study males and females in parallel so we can be sensitive to possible sex differences.

Julian

Julian De Freitas

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School

I study ethical intelligence— the cognitive tools that people need in order to coordinate in social life, as when using the same products, buying beers that will be enjoyed by others at a party, and conforming to community standards or being viewed as popular. I study both how ethical intelligence works at a basic level, and how it intersects with business at an applied level:... Read more about Julian De Freitas