Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University and Investigator, Palo Alto VA. Dr. Etkin is trained as a neuroscientist and psychiatrist. The overarching aim of the Etkin lab is to understand the neural basis of emotional disorders and their treatment, and to leverage this knowledge to develop novel treatment interventions. In support of this goal, he also co-directs a new initiative from the Stanford Neurosciences Institute called NeuroCircuit, which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, psychologists, physicians and others to establish a new intellectual, scientific and clinical paradigm for understanding and manipulating human brain circuits in healthy individuals and for treating psychiatric disease.