CAMP Lab

computation. affect. motivation. (neuro)psychiatry.

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Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Questions we ask

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

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 for the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, which will take 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,” has been accepted to the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting.
Mar 01, 2026 Dr. Yee will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at the University of Iowa starting August 2026!