CAMP Lab
computation. affect. motivation. (neuro)psychiatry.
Psychological and Brain Sciences Department
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Questions we ask
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The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa, directed by Dr. Debbie Yee, uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand how the brain generates motivation, affect, and decisions — and how these processes become dysregulated in mental and neurological illness.
news
| May 24, 2026 | Congratulations Tony El Nemer for graduating, and for receiving the Muriel Fain Sher Premium for excellence in psychology and completion of his honors thesis! |
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| Apr 29, 2026 | Dr. Yee receives an Early Career Travel Award and The CAMP Lab attends SOBP2026! |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Gill LeBlanc presents a poster entitled “Investigating Heart Rate as a Physiological Measure of Stressor Controllability and Mental Effort Allocation,” at Mind Brain Research Day. |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Dr. Yee has been selected as Fellow for the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, which will place in April 12–16 in Palo Alto, CA. |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Tony El Nemer’s late-breaking abstract, “Learning and Generalization of Stressor Controllability fo Mental Effort Allocation,” has been accepted to the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting. |