Welcome to the Ceceli Cognitive Control Lab! Housed within the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, our research is dedicated to understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of self-control. We are particularly interested in studying the motivational, affective, and motor facets of self-control processes, how they manifest in clinical conditions (e.g., substance use disorders), and how they may be restored. To this end, we employ multi-modal methods, including structural and functional neuroimaging, psychophysiology, laboratory and naturalistic task behavior, and real-world clinical assessments. The ultimate goal of our efforts is to identify predictors of clinical vulnerability and offer neuroscience-informed improvements to available interventions. We are funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundations, and generous support from the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai.
Recent publications
Enhancing Ecological Validity in Habit Research via Naturalistic Methods
A. Ceceli, E. Tricomi
David V. Smith, Patricia L. Lockwood, Dominic S. Fareri, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2026, pp. 183--196
Faith Adams, A. Ceceli, Siddhartha Peri, I. Ivanov, M. Parvaz
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2026
Y. Huang, A. Ceceli, G. Kronberg, K. Drury, S. G. King, N. McClain, Y. Y. Wong, M. Boros, E. Butelman, Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault, M. Parvaz, N. Alia-Klein, E. L. Garland, R. Goldstein
medRxiv, 2026
A. Ceceli, S. King, K. Drury, N. McClain, John H. Gray, P. S. Dassanayake, J. Newcorn, Daniela Schiller, N. Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein
medRxiv, 2025
A. Ceceli, S. King, K. Drury, N. McClain, John H. Gray, P. S. Dassanayake, J. Newcorn, Daniela Schiller, N. Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025
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