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 14, 2026 Dr. Yee has been selected for the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, taking place April 12–16 in San Francisco.
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 (SOBP 2026).
Mar 01, 2026 Dr. Yee will begin as an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa starting August 2026!