G. Sean Escola, MD, PHD

Overview
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Gender
- Male
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Location(s)
Insurance Accepted
Aetna
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- EPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- NYP Employee Plan
- NY Signature
- POS
- PPO
- Student Health
Affinity Health Plan
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
AgeWell
- Medicare Managed Care
- Special Needs
Elderplan
- Medicare Managed Care
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Medicare Managed Care
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
Fidelis Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Healthfirst
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Quality Health Management
- Quality Health Management
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Behavioral Health (Columbia University Employee Plan)
WellCare
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
World Trade Center Health Plan
- World Trade Center Health Plan
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- PhD, 2009 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- MD, 2010 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Board Certifications
- Psychiatry
Research
Research Interests
- Cognitive/Systems Neuroscience
- Computational Psychiatry
- Computation and Theory
- Motor Systems
- Theoretical Neuroscience
Selected Publications
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Laureline Logiaco, Larry Abbott, Sean Escola, “Thalamic control of cortical dynamic in a model of flexible motor sequencing”, Cell Reports, 2021
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Laureline Logiaco, Sean Escola, “Thalamocortical motor circuit insights for more robust hierarchical control of complex sequences”, arXiv, 2020
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James Murray, Sean Escola, “Remembrance of things practiced with fast and slow learning in cortical and subcortical pathways”, Nature Communication, 2020
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Brian DePasquale, Christopher Cueva, Kanaka Rajan, Sean Escola, and Larry Abbott. "full-FORCE: A target-based method for training recurrent networks", PloS one, 2018.
- James Murray, Sean Escola, “Learning multiple variable-speed sequences in striatum via cortical tutoring”, eLife, 2017