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Ryan Yan
Psychology
reward, decision making, mood disorders, neuroimaging
Ryan (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology advised by Brian Knutson. She uses a variety of methods (pupillometry, fMRI, EEG, computational modelling) to study reward-based decision-making in the brain, and tries to understand the individual differences in this process in relation to mood disorders. Ryan received a BSc in Psychology from Nanjing University and two Master's degrees in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford.