Brendon O. Watson is a resident in the Psychiatry Department at the Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at Columbia University, where he worked with Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D. focusing on the study of network dynamics in the mouse neocortex and on the refinement of two-photon imaging methods. Along with his residency, he is currently conducting postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki, M.D., Ph.D. at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ where he continues to focus on the study of network dynamics with an emphasis on linking them to function and behavior.