Andrew Kayser, MD, PhD, FANA
University of California San Francisco
Andrew Kayser, MD, PhD, FANA, is a behavioral neurologist and the Howard Weinberger Endowed Professor of Neurology at UCSF. His laboratory uses computational modeling, neuropharmacology, functional MRI, and multivariate connectivity methods to study higher-order decision making and the influence of various interventions on complex behaviors. In particular, his lab seeks to understand how failures of self-regulation, including attentional and mnemonic impairments, manifest in neurological and psychiatric illnesses and how augmenting top-down control – reflected neurophysiologically in the ability of prefrontal cortex to influence activity in posterior cortical and subcortical brain regions – may provide the basis for new therapies.