Achievement

IGERT trainee Alice Lin successfully defended her thesis, Neural and Behavioral Investigations of Social Reward Processing, to earn her PhD. Alice's graduate research illustrates the promise of neuroeconomic tools and methods to shed light on neuropsychiatric syndromes, such as autism spectrum disorder. By investigating the relation between social and non-social rewards, her research indicates how hypoactivation in neural reward circuits may underlie impaired social processing in autism spectrum disorder.