Charlie Schleifer

Charlie is an MD/PhD student in the UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Graduate Program. After graduating with a BS in Psychology from Yale, he worked with Dr. Alan Anticevic in Yale’s division of Neurocognition Neurocomputation and Neurogenetics using multimodal neuroimaging to research the effects of psychiatric disorders and psychotropic drugs. In Dr. Bearden’s lab, Charlie is interested in leveraging brain imaging and genetic approaches to investigate the biological mechanisms underlying the development of psychosis spectrum disorders in individuals with genetic and clinical risk factors.