Avijit Chowdhury, PhD
McLean Hospital Title
Research Fellow, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research
Harvard Medical School Title
- Research Fellow in Psychiatry
Biography
Avijit Chowdhury, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow whose research focuses on contemplative neuroscience, such as meditation and prayer, at the Meditation Research Group at McLean Hospital. He specializes in using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural correlates of behavior and mental processes.
As a graduate student, Dr. Chowdhury also studied the role of regret-based decision making in depressed individuals and how it relates to brain activity, using fMRI and computational modeling to understand behavior in neuroeconomic tasks.
Education & Training
Degrees:
- 2015 BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- 2021 PhD in Psychology, National University of Singapore
Fellowship:
- 2021-2022 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
617.855.4209
Office Address:
Belmont campus - Oaks Building, Room 347
