Benjamin Suárez-Jiménez, PhD
Dr. Suárez-Jiménez is a translational neuroscientist interested in the neural bases of spatial and contextual learning in appetitive and aversive contexts, using tools of fMRI and virtual reality tasks. His work focuses on the coding of basic approach and avoidance mechanisms in the brain, and how these neural signatures become dysfunctional in specific contexts for individuals that experience trauma.
The Furth Fund award he received will be used to support a graduate student project to study reward vs. threat competition within an environment using virtual reality and MRI technologies.