I'm a second-year PhD student in Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working in the NARC Lab with Dr. Rita Goldstein. My work in the lab focuses on how large-scale networks reconfigure dynamically in response to naturalistic stimuli (e.g., movies), and how the underlying white-matter architecture may constrain those brain dynamics.
- Naturalistic neuroimaging paradigms
- Real-time fMRI neurofeedback
- Whole-brain modeling and brain state dynamics
- Network control theory
🔗 Ceceli AO et al. (McClain N) — The Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution Model of Drug Addiction: Recent Neuroimaging Evidence and Future Directions. Annual Review of Psychology.
🔗 Ceceli AO et al. (McClain N) — The synergy of methylphenidate- and reconsolidation-based extinction normalizes ventromedial prefrontal function in drug addiction. PNAS.
🔗 Huang Y et al. (McClain N) — Sex and Hormonal Effects on Drug Cue Reactivity and Its Regulation in Human Addiction. Biological Psychiatry.
🔗 McClain N, Ceceli AO*, et al. — Moving Beyond Self-Report in Characterizing Drug Addiction: Using Drug-Biased Behavior to Predict Treatment Completion and Dropout in Heroin-Primary, Medication-Maintained Opioid Use Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
🔗 Kronberg G*, Ceceli AO* et al. (McClain N) — Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction. Brain.
🔗 Liao Z et al. (McClain N) — Functional architecture of intracellular oscillations in hippocampal dendrites. Nature Communications.
🔗 Ceceli AO et al. (McClain N) — Recovery of anterior prefrontal cortex inhibitory control after 15 weeks of inpatient treatment in heroin use disorder. Nature Mental Health.
🔗 Ceceli AO et al. (McClain N) — Common and distinct fronto-striatal volumetric changes in heroin and cocaine use disorders. Brain.
🔗 Ceceli AO et al. (McClain N) — The Neural Signature of Impaired Inhibitory Control in Individuals with Heroin Use Disorder. Journal of Neuroscience.
- BA in Cellular Neuroscience & Mathematics from Barnard College of Columbia University
- Attended U Wash Neurohackademy 2025!
Languages: Python · R · MATLAB · Bash
Neuroimaging: fMRI · fMRIPrep · BIDS · PET/MR · EEG · DWI
Methods: HMMs · SRM · k-means clustering · GLM · ISC/ISFC · network control theory
HPC: Slurm (Minerva @ Mount Sinai)
Other: Git · LaTeX · REDCap