Dr. Young received his BS and MS in Biology from Stanford University. He pursued a combined MD-PhD degree at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His doctoral thesis in the lab of Dr. Matthew Shapiro focused on in behavioral flexibility in rats. He performed single unit recordings in the orbitofrontal cortex to study neural encoding during reversal learning. Currently, he is one of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellows at Mount Sinai Hospital. His current research performs behavioral testing on human subjects while they undergo electrocorticography (ECOG) for surgical management of epilepsy. As a Leon Levy fellow, his research focuses on the role of intrinsic oscillatory activity in supporting decision-making and memory.
