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Jony Sheynin, PhD

Jony Sheynin
Jony Sheynin, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Contact

Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
sheynin@tamu.edu
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Biography

I use multidisciplinary approach, which includes computational modeling, neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral analyses, to study altered processes that underlie psychopathologies, such as anxiety disorders and PTSD.

Education and Training

  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, 2014
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, MS, Medical Sciences (Cum Laude), 2008
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BSc, Biomedical Engineering, 2006

Professional Certifications

  • University of Michigan, Postdoctoral training. Department of Psychiatry, 2018

Research Interests

  • Computational Psychiatry
  • Neuroimaging (functional MRI)
  • Anxiety disorders and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Avoidance behavior and approach-avoidance conflict
  • Decision making

Teaching Interests

  • Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Research Design and Statistics

Awards, Recognition and Service

  • 2016: Trainee Professional Development Award (Society for Neuroscience);
  • 2015: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Memberships

  • Society of Biological Psychiatry
  • Anxiety and Depression Association of America
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Pavlovian Society

Representative Publications

  • George, S.A.‡, Sheynin, J.‡, Gonzalez, R., Liberzon, I., Abelson, J.L. (2019). Decision Making under Risk in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anxiety: A Prospect Theory Model. Frontiers in Psychiatry 10:469 (‡Equal Contribution).
  • Sheynin, J., Liberzon I. (2017). Circuit Dysregulation and Circuit-Based Treatments in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. (review). Neuroscience Letters 649:133-138.
  • Sheynin, J., Moustafa, A.A., Beck, K.D., Servatius, R.J., Myers, C.E. (2015). Testing the Role of Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Avoidance Behavior: A Computational Modeling Approach. Behavioral Brain Research 283:121-138.
  • Sheynin, J., Beck, K.D., Servatius, R.J., Myers, C.E. (2014). Acquisition and Extinction of Human Avoidance Behavior: Attenuating Effect of Safety Signals and Associations with Anxiety Vulnerabilities. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 8:323.