The core of my scientific expertise lies in decision neuroscience built on principles of neuroeconomics. This emerging field seeks to quantify how the physical limits of the brain constrain the way in which affective states and cognitive biases drive complex behavior, particularly when our choices deviate from normality or might not be in our own best interests. My clinical interests have evolved to encompass the complex changes in decision-making information processing that could go awry in mood and substance use disorders. This novel intersection of the fields of neuroeconomics and psychiatry is at its early stages, and I believe virtually all psychiatric disorders are decision-making disorders in some capacity. Rooted in concepts of computational psychiatry born out of NIH’s pleas to radically change translational research, I have been building my independent research platform integrating neuroeconomics and circuit neuroscience across species and alongside my clinical practice.