Mia Mantei, B.S., is a Postgraduate Research Associate at the Yale School of Medicine, where she works on a Tourette Syndrome neurofeedback clinical trial, using fMRI to create personalized tic-specific treatment. She trains under clinicians at the Yale Child Study Center Tic and OCD Clinic, administering diagnostic tic assessments and developing clinical case formulations. She is also investigating motor network dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. She hopes to translate her findings from this project to better understand neural mechanisms underlying Tourette Syndrome. Mantei has presented research at national and international conferences, including a talk on motor cortex functional mapping at Yale’s Neuroscience Seminar Series (2025) and a poster on connectivity changes in adolescents with tics at the Real-Time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback meeting in Heidelberg, Germany (2024). She has championed the TS community for over seven years and currently serves as Chapter Co-Chair for the TAA Connecticut Chapter.