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George Denfield

Title: Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist; Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience

Institution: Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute

Discipline: Neuroscience & Cognition

Appearances: 1

Notable: NIMH Outstanding Resident Award; lead author of research published in Nature Communications demonstrating that neuronal variability is attributable to fluctuations in attention; B.S. from Tufts University in biopsychology and cognitive science

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Biography

George Denfield is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding the biological basis of the mind and consciousness. He completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience studying how changes in internal brain states such as attention affect neuronal responses to sensory stimuli, and his work on neuronal variability and attention was published in Nature Communications.

Sample Works

The Nested States Model: An Empirical Framework for Integrating Brain and Mind (2024) Paper
Taking Subjectivity Seriously: Towards a Unification of Phenomenology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience (2023) Paper
Diverse Task-Driven Modeling of Macaque V4 Reveals Functional Specialization towards Semantic Tasks (2024) Paper

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