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Brendon Watson, M.D., Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Psychiatry and physician-scientist with an interest in both basic neuroscience and translational neuroscience. His expertise in electrophysiology and rodent behavior.  He completed his Ph.D. with Dr. Rafael Yuste studying cortical microcircuit dynamics using calcium imaging at Columbia University. He went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. György Buzsaki studying cortical circuits in sleep and wake cycles of freely behaving animals using silicon probes at New York University. He obtained his M.D. from Columbia University and completed his psychiatry residency at Cornell University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is now a practicing general psychiatrist at University of Michigan and additionally directs the Watson Lab which uses electrophysiology and behavioral methods to understand brain-behavior linkages in rodents.