Junghee Lee, PhD

Dr. Junghee Lee is an associate research psychologist in the Green lab. She joined the Green lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology from Seoul National University in Korea, and her Doctorate from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. The goal of her research is to better understand cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia and other major mental illness, their biological mechanisms, and their functional implications. To pursue these research interests, she has employed both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Her recent projects have focused on neurobiological mechanisms of social preference system and social cognitive processes in schizophrenia. Dr. Lee has recently moved to the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.