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Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D., Diagnostic Neuroimaging
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Dr. Yurgelun-Todd joined the University of Utah in the Summer of 2008. Her focus is on the identification of brain abnormalities that could represent risk factors for psychiactric illness. Specifically, she will be researching the effects of development on cortico-limbic networks in healthy children as well as changes produced by drugs using MRIs. Dr. Yurgelun-Todd currently has $3.8M in research funding.
Yurgelun-Todd has a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from Harvard University. For eight years she was an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and for nine years the Director of the internationally recognized Cognitive Neuroimaging laboratory at the Brain Imaging Center of McLean Hospital.
In 2009, Yurgelun-Todd was named director of the Veterans Administration’s Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) in Salt Lake City. MIRECC was established by Congress with the goal of researching the causes and treatments of mental disorders and using education to put new knowledge into routine clinical practice in the VA.