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Helen Pushkarskaya

Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Instructor in the Department of Economics

Helen Pushkarskaya is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine and an Instructor (Introduction into Data Analysis and Econometrics) in the Department of Economics, Yale University. She has completed training in mathematics and physics (undergraduate training, Moscow Physics and Technology Institute), economics (graduate training, Ohio State University), psychology (postdoctoral training, Ohio State University), imaging and cognitive neurobiology (T32 fellowship, Yale School of Medicine), and clinical sciences (NIH K01 Career Development Award, Yale School of Medicine). Her research in multi-disciplinary and relies on complementary cross-sectional and longitudinal data using behavioral and fMRI experiments, online and paper-based surveys, semi-structured interviews, and clinical assessments. She is one of the organizers of the series MAPs: Methods And Primers for Computational Psychiatry and Neuroeconomics.