Robert S. Astur, Ph.D. Director, Virtual Reality Laboratory Assistant Professor Adjunct Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Email me Need a VR task developed?

Roles and Responsibilities include:

• Development of high-resolution virtual navigation software including driving simulators and virtual analogues of rodent spatial memory tasks.
• Using converging scientific techniques to understand the neurobiology of memory.

Objectives/Interests in Neuropsychiatry:

• Application of virtual spatial memory tests to psychiatric groups with hippocampal abnormalities.
• Examining the effects of abused drugs on memory processes and brain activity.
• Deciphering the effects of gender and aging on memory processes.
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