Warren Pettine, MD

Warren Woodrich Pettine, MD, is an Assistant Professor at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and a member of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, with support from the Biomedical Informatics department, the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, and the U Health Digital Health Initiative. Dr. Pettine investigates how attention shapes decision making, and how that process can be altered in conditions such as autism, depression or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. His research program combines theory, data analysis and behavioral experiments. To develop theories of attentional deployment he uses biophysical neural networks, reinforcement learning algorithms, artificial neural networks, and other cognitive computational approaches. These models are informed by analysis of neural activity time series recordings. Model predictions are then tested through innovative tasks, deployed both in controlled lab environments and at scale through online games. Dr. Pettine obtained a medical degree from the University of Colorado and received computational neuroscience training through research positions at Stanford, NYU, and Yale.