Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Name/Title	Department/School	Research Interests
Aballay, Alejandro - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine	Neuroimmunology Neural regulation of immunity Neural circuits, learning from infections
Abou-Donia, Mohamed (Bahie) - Ph.D. Professor	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Pesticides Development
Acheson, Shawn - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Medical Psychology	Traumatic brain injury Recovery of function Alcohol dependence and abuse
Adcock, R. Alison - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Neuromodulation of long term memory Neuroimaging as a tool for enhancing cognitive and behavioral change Schizophrenia & depression
Alberts, Susan - Ph.D. Jack H. Neely Professor of Biology	Biology, Arts & Sciences Evolutionary Anthropology	Behavioral ecology Evolution of behavior Genetics and behavior
Andrews, Edna - Ph.D. Professor and Director	Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Language and the brain Speech perception Multilingualism
Andrews, Nancy - M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Dean, Duke University School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs	Pediatrics, School of Medicine Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Arts & Sciences	Movement disorders Brain iron homeostasis Parkinson disease
Appelbaum, Greg - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Visual neuroscience Cognitive control Brain and behavioral plasticity
Ariely, Dan - Ph.D. James B. Duke Professor of Psychology Behavorial Economics	Business, Fuqua School of Business Economics, Arts & Sciences	Irrationality Behavioral economics
Arshavsky, Vadim - Ph.D. Professor	Ophthalmology, School of Medicine Pharmacology & Cancer Biology	Vision G protein signaling
Aselage, Melissa - Ph.D., RN-BC, FNP-BC Assistant Professor	Nursing, School of Nursing	Dementia Meal behavior
Ashley-Koch, Allison - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine Biostatistics & Bioinformatics	Genetic basis of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders Bipolar disorder
Augustine, George J. - Ph.D. Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Synaptic circuitry Neural signaling Imaging technologies
Barr, Roger - Ph.D. Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Pediatrics, School of Medicine	Action potential initiation Cell to cell connections Models of active membrane
Bedlack, Richard - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron diseases
Belger, Aysenil - Ph.D. Adjunct Professor	Radiology, School of Medicine	Schizophrenia Autism Neuroimaging
Bettman, James R. - Ph.D. Burlington Industries Professor of Business Administration	Marketing, Fuqua School of Business Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Emotion and decision making Contingent strategy selection in choice
Bhandawat, Vikas - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences	Olfaction Neural coding Drosophila
Bilbo, Staci - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Neuroimmune interactions and behavior Cytokines and cognition Early-life origins of risk and resilience
Blazer II, Dan G. - M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. J.P. Gibbons Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine Community and Family Medicine	Depression Epidemiology Late Life
Brannon, Elizabeth - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Evolutionary Anthropology	Cognitive development & developmental cognitive neuroscience Numerical cognition Comparative psychology
Browndyke, Jeffrey - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Functional neuroanatomical correlates of postoperative cognitive decline Major iatrogenic stressors for later cognition in the elderly Functional neuroanatomy of deceptive behavior
Cabeza, Roberto - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Memory Emotion Aging
Calakos, Nicole - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Synaptic plasticity Basal ganglia function Dystonia tourette's and obsessive compulsive disorder
Cant, Nell - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Auditory system Neuroanatomy
Caron, Marc G. - Ph.D. James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology	Cell Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Signal transduction in the brain Schizophrenia and Depression Monoamine related behavioral dysfunctions
Charney, Evan - Ph.D. Associate Professor of the Practice	Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy	Genetics Developmental biology Evo-devo
Chartrand, Tanya - Ph.D. Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience	Marketing , Fuqua School of Business Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Social cognition Consumer behavior Nonconscious processes
Collins, Leslie - Ph.D. Professor and Chair	Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Biomedical Engineering; Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine	Signal Processing Brain Computer Interfaces Cochlear Implants
Colton, Carol - Ph.D. Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine	Neuroimmunology Alzheimer's disease Brain redox balanve
Cooper, Harris - Ph.D. Professor and Chair	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Research Methodology Education
Costanzo, Philip - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences DGHI; Kenan Institute; SSRI	Decision making Substance abuse Self regulation
Costello, E. Jane - Ph.D. Professor; Associate Director for Research, Center for Child & Family Policy	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Mental Illness Childhood and Adolescence Epidemiology
Curry, John - Ph.D. Professor; Director of Clinical Psychology	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Adolescent depression Substance abuse cognitive behavior therapy
DeBellis, Michael - M.D., M.P.H. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine	Ptsd and childhood sexual abuse Functional and anatomical mri
Diaz, Michele - Ph.D. Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Reading comprehension Aging Figurative language
Dichter, Gabriel - Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Autism Unipolar depression
Dodge, Kenneth - Ph.D. William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies; Director, Center for Child and Family Policy	Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Violence Social information processing Developmental psychopathology
Donald, Bruce - Ph.D. James B. Duke Professor	Department of Computer Science, and Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and Pratt School of Engineering, Arts & Sciences Biochemistry, School of Medicine	Nanotechnology for neurobiology Protein:protein interactions Computer-aided drug design
Doraiswamy, P. Murali - M.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Medicine, Division of Geriatrics	Memory Emotion Imaging
Drea, Christine - Ph.D. Professor	Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences Biology	Behavioral ecology Sexual differentiation Social behavior
Dunson, David - Ph.D. Professor	Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences	Statistical modeling Functional connectivity Bayesian
Dzirasa, Kafui - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, School of Medicine	Schizophrenia Bipolar disorder Addiction
Egner, Tobias - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Cognitive control Selective attention Visual cognition
Eroglu, Çagla - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Cell Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Synaptogenesis Astrocytes Extracellular matrix
Farsiu, Sina - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Ophthalmology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Vision Image processing Imaging
Ferrari, Silvia - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering	Approximate dynamic programming Systems and control theory Machine learning
Finkelstein, Gleb - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Physics, Arts & Sciences	Developing intracellular probes
Fischer, Martin - Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor	Chemistry, Arts & Sciences	Neuroimaging
Fitzpatrick, David - Ph.D. Professor Emeritus	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Functional organization of visual cortex Development of cortical circuits In vivo imaging of neural structure and function
Franks, Kevin - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Olfaction Sensory processing Neural circuits
Goldstein, David B. - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics	Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine	Genetics of neurological disease pharmacogenetics HIV host genetics and human genetic diversity
Grandl, Jörg - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Ion Channel Research Unit	Somatosensation Nociception Ion channels
Greenside, Henry - Ph.D. Professor	Physics, Arts & Sciences	Theoretical neurobiology How brains generate Recognize and store temporal sequences
Grill, Warren - Ph.D. Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Neurobiology; Surgery, School of Medicine	Electrical stimulation of the nervous system for restoration of function Deep brain stimulation Neural control of bladder and autonomic function
Groh, Jennifer M. - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, Arts & Sciences Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Multisensory processing Audition Motor control and visual processing
Hall, William - Ph.D. Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Psychology	Visuomotor integration Motor systems Eye movements
Hamoudi, Amar - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy Economics, Arts & Sciences	Executive functioning Cognitive economics
Hare, Brian - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Human cognitive evolution Social cognition Domestication
Hariri, Ahmad - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Corticolimbic circuit function Neuromodulators Trait anxiety
Harris, Lasana - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Social cognition Emotion Decision making
Hartemink, Alexander - Ph.D. Alexander F. Hehmeyer Associate Professor	Computer Science, Arts & Sciences Statistical Science and Biology, Arts & Sciences	Neural information flow Neuro-electrical circuits Vocal learning
Heller, Katherine - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences	Cognition Bayesian statistics Machine learning
Hochgeschwender, Ute - M.D. Associate Research Professor; Director, Neurotransgenic Laboratory	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Genetically encoded neural effectors genetic engineering of animal models Mouse models of neurological and psychiatric diseases
Huettel, Scott - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences School of Medicine	Neuroeconomics Functional neuroimaging Cognition
Izatt, Joseph - Ph.D. Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Ophthalmology, School of Medicine	Imaging technology
Jarvis, Erich - Ph.D. Associate Professor; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Origin and Mechanisms of Language Neuroethology Systems Neurobiology
Jenson, Deborah - Ph.D. Professor and Director	Romance Studies, Arts & Sciences	Verbal cognition Mimetic states and mechanisms Post-traumatic stress
Jiang, Yong-hui - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine	Genetics and epigenetics of neurodevelopmental disorders Angelman and Prader-Willi Syndrome and Autism Gene targeting and mouse models
Johnsen, Sönke - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences	Vision Magnetoreception Diffuse sensory systems
Johnson, Elizabeth - Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Vision Color mechanisms Sensory perception
Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Metabolomics Biomarkers Drug discovery
Keefe, Richard - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Schizophrenia Research Group	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Schizophrenia Cognitive function High-risk
Klein, Rebecca - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine MIRECC (VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center)	Amygdala Apolipoprotein e Neurophysiology
Kollins, Scott - Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Duke University ADHD Program	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Adhd Smoking and nicotine
Kuhn, Cynthia - Ph.D. Professor	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences	Animal models of drug addiction Ontogeny of neural circuit activation by rewarding and aversive stimuli Gonadal steroid hormone action in brain
Kuo, Chay - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Cell Biology; Pediatrics, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Circuitry integration Postnatal neurogenesis Stem cell niche function in health and disease
LaBar, Kevin - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Affective and social neuroscience Memory systems Fear and anxiety disorders
Lad, Eleonora (Nora) - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Ophthalmology, School of Medicine	Vision Imaging Alzheimer's disease
Lad, Nandan - M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine	Neuromodulation Medical devices Health outcomes
Lane, James - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Caffeine Stress Personality
Lawson, Dewey - Ph.D. Adjunct Professor	Physics, Arts & Sciences	Auditory prostheses Music perception
Lee, Tong - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Psychostimulant abuse Novel treatment development Translational clinical trials
Levin, Edward - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Addiction Cognition Neurotoxicology
Liedtke, Wolfgang - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine Neurobiology, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences	Pain Trp channel Neurosensory transduction and transmission
Lisanby, Sarah H. - M.D. Professor and Chair	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Tms Depression Brain stimulation
Madden, David - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience	Aging Cognitive function Attention and memory
March, John - M.D., M.P.H. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	biomarker/biosignature discovery and validation imaging genomics in pediatric psychiatry Phase I-IV clincial trials / outcomes research
Marsh, Elizabeth - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Learning and memory Autobiographical memory Knowledge acquisition
Marx, Christine - M.D., M.A. Associate Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Neurosteroids Schizophrenia Ptsd
Matsunami, Hiroaki - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology	Olfaction Pheromone Chemical senses
McClernon, Francis (Joe) - Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Smoking Nicotine dependence Neuroimaging
McNamara, James - M.D. Duke School of Medicine Professor of Neurosciences, Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Medicine, Division of Neurology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology	Epileptogenesis Signaling Neurotrophins
Meade, Christina - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Drug addiction Hiv/aids Mental health
Mikati, Mohamad - M.D. Professor; Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology	Pediatrics, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Epilepsy Imaging Genetics
Mitroff, Stephen - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Visual cognition Enhancing and modifying cognitive abilities Development of visual cognition
Moffitt, Terrie E. - Ph.D. Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Gene-environment interplay in mental disorders Psychiatric Epidemiology Cognitive ability assessment
Mooney, Richard - Ph.D. George Barth Geller Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Sensorimotor integration and imitative learning Audition Music and speech
Moore, Scott - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Neuropharmacology Substance abuse Amygdala circuitry
Morey, Rajendra - M.S., M.D. Associate Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Durham VA Medical Center, Arts & Sciences	Ptsd Tbi Emotion processing
Morgenlander, Joel - M.D. Professor and Clinical Chief	Medicine, Division of Neurology, Clinical Services, School of Medicine Neuroscience Clinical Service Unit	Neurological medical education Neurological autoimmune diseases Sports neurology and concussion
Nadler, J. Victor - Ph.D. Professor	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Epilepsy Synaptic Transmission Synaptic Plasticity
Nicolelis, Miguel - M.D., Ph.D. Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience; Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Neuroengineering Brain-machine interface Multi-electrode recording
Nowicki, Stephen - Ph.D. Professor; Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education	Biology, Arts & Sciences Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, School of Medicine	neuroethology animal communication
Payne, John W. - Ph.D. Joseph J. Ruvane Professor of Management	Management and Marketing, Fuqua School of Business Psychology & Neuroscience; Statistics & Decision Sciences, Arts & Sciences	Decision making
Peterchev, Angel V. - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Transcranial brain stimulation (tms, tdcs, ect, mst, tsms) Depression Power electronics
Pitt, Geoffrey S. - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Ion Channel Research Unit	Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology	Ion channel physiology Epilepsy Synaptic plasticity
Platt, Michael - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Duke Institute for Brain Science, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Neural basis of decision-making Neural basis of social behavior Evolution of cognition
Premont, Richard - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine	Post-traumatic stress disorder Parkinson's disease Anxiety/depression
Provenzale, James - M.D. Professor	Radiology, Divison of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine	Nanotechnology Tumors Brain development
Purves, Dale - M.D. Professor; Program Director for Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience; Philosophy, Arts & Sciences	Music Vision Audition
Reuter-Rice, Karin - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Pediatrics, School of Nursing School of Medicine	Pediatric traumatic brain injury Vasospasm Neurocognitive outcomes
Rezvani, Amir - Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biological Psychiatry, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscince, Arts & Sciences	Alcoholism, nicotine addiction Cognition, drug development Drug addiction
Roberts, Craig Dane - Ph.D. Assistant Professor of the Practice	Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Arts & Sciences	Learning & memory Sensory systems Teaching & learning
Rubin, David C. - Ph.D. Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Autobiographical memory Post-traumatic stress disorder
Sapiro, Guillermo - D.Sc. Professor	Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Computer Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Arts & Sciences	Image and video processing Brain imaging Cryo-microscopy
Schmajuk, Nestor - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience	Neural network models Classical conditioning Causal learning
Schramm-Sapyta, Nicole - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine	Drug addiction Adolescence Stress
Schwartz-Bloom, Rochelle - Ph.D. Professor and Director	Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biological Psychiatry	Neuroscience & pharmacology education
Seaman, William - Ph.D. Professor	Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences	Neosentience-biomimetics/bioabstraction Computational insight production Generative technology-recombinant informatics & poetics
Sherwood, Nina - Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences	Neuronal cytoskeleton Synapse formation/maintenance Hereditary spastic paraplegia
Silver, Debra - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine	Cortical development Rna regulation Stem cell division
Simon, Sidney - Ph.D. Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Gustation Membrane biophysics
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter - Ph.D. Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics	Philosophy, Arts & Sciences	Moral judgment Decision and action
Skene, J. H. Pate - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Genomics Decision making Law
Soderling, Scott - Ph.D. Assistant Professor; Director, Duke Bac Recombineering Core Facility	Cell Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Synapse development Mental retardation Actin cytoskeleton
Sommer, Marc - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Vision Cognition Eye movements
Song, Allen - Ph.D. Professor and Director, BIAC	Radiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	MRI acquisition methodology Brain function MRI contrast mechanisms
Stacy, Mark - M.D. Professor and Vice Dean for Clinical Research	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine	Impulse control disorder in parkinson's disease Placebo effect Pd drug development
Steffens, David - M.D., M.H.S. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Medicine	Depression Dementia Neuroimaging
Strauman, Timothy - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine	Depression Addiction Psychotherapy and behavior change
Strittmatter, Warren - M.D. Professor	Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Alzheimers disease Huntington's disease
Swartzwelder, Scott - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Cellular neurophysiology Neural mechanisms of drug effects and addiction Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
Tomasi, Carlo - Ph.D. Professor	Computer Science, Arts & Sciences	Computer vision
Tracey, W. Daniel - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Anesthesiology, School of Medicine Cell Biology; Neurobiology	Nociception and pain Mechanotransduction Perception of temperature
Tucci, Debara - M.D. Professor	Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine	Central auditory system Auditory system plasticity Auditory system prostheses
Tung, Jenny - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences	Animal behavior Genomics Baboons
Tupler, Larry - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Neuropsychology Neuroimaging Psychopathology
Vidmar, Neil - Ph.D. Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law	Law, Law School Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Legal decision-making Medical malpractice litigation Wrongful convictions
Volkan, Pelin - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Biology, Arts & Sciences	Sensory circuit assembly Olfactory system Epigenetics
Voyvodic, James - Ph.D. AssociateProfessor	Radiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Vision Brain imaging Brain tumors
Wang, Fan - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Cell Biology, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Mammalian touch sensory system Regulation of neuronal endomembrane system
Wang, Lihong - M.D, Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine	Depression Interaction of emotion with cognition Mild cognitive impairment
Warner, David - M.D. Professor	Anesthesiology, School of Medicine Neurobiology; Surgery	Stroke Traumatic brain injury Cerebral vasospasm
Wax, Adam - Ph.D. Theodore Kennedy Associate Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering	Imaging Biophotonics
West, Anne - M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor	Neurobiology, School of Medicine	Epigenetics Activity-regulated transcription Synapse development and plasticity
Wetsel, William - Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director, Mouse Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Analysis Core Facility	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Medicine (Endocrinology)	Neuropsychopharmacology Mouse models of neuropsychiatric illness Neuroendocrinology
White, Leonard - Ph.D. Associate Professor	Community & Family Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy Division, School of Medicine Neurobiology	Sensory experience and brain development Cortical maps Human brain anatomy
Whitfield, Keith - Ph.D. Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Medicine	Aging Minorities Genetics
Williams, Christina L. - Ph.D. Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Development Hormones and Nutrients Neural Plasticity
Woldorff, Marty - Ph.D. Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, Arts & Sciences	Attention Cognitive control Perceptual awareness
Yin, Henry - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences Neurobiology	Goal-directed actions Decision making Reward
Yoder, Anne - Ph.D. Professor; Director, Duke Primate Center	Biology, Arts & Sciences Evolutionary Anthropology	evolution genetics and genomics
Zucker, Nancy - Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences	Anorexia nervosa Interoception Social cognition

Aballay, Alejandro - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine

Neuroimmunology
Neural regulation of immunity
Neural circuits, learning from infections

Abou-Donia, Mohamed (Bahie) - Ph.D.
Professor

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Pesticides
Development

Acheson, Shawn - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Medical Psychology

Traumatic brain injury
Recovery of function
Alcohol dependence and abuse

Adcock, R. Alison - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Neuromodulation of long term memory
Neuroimaging as a tool for enhancing cognitive and behavioral change
Schizophrenia & depression

Alberts, Susan - Ph.D.
Jack H. Neely Professor of Biology

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Evolutionary Anthropology

Behavioral ecology
Evolution of behavior
Genetics and behavior

Andrews, Edna - Ph.D.
Professor and Director

Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology, Arts & Sciences

Language and the brain
Speech perception
Multilingualism

Andrews, Nancy - M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dean, Duke University School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Arts & Sciences

Movement disorders
Brain iron homeostasis
Parkinson disease

Appelbaum, Greg - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Visual neuroscience
Cognitive control
Brain and behavioral plasticity

Ariely, Dan - Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Psychology Behavorial Economics

Business, Fuqua School of Business

Economics, Arts & Sciences

Irrationality
Behavioral economics

Arshavsky, Vadim - Ph.D.
Professor

Ophthalmology, School of Medicine

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Vision
G protein signaling

Aselage, Melissa - Ph.D., RN-BC, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor

Nursing, School of Nursing

Dementia
Meal behavior

Ashley-Koch, Allison - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine

Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Genetic basis of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders
Bipolar disorder

Augustine, George J. - Ph.D.
Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Synaptic circuitry
Neural signaling
Imaging technologies

Barr, Roger - Ph.D.
Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Action potential initiation
Cell to cell connections
Models of active membrane

Bedlack, Richard - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Motor neuron diseases

Belger, Aysenil - Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Radiology, School of Medicine

Schizophrenia
Autism
Neuroimaging

Bettman, James R. - Ph.D.
Burlington Industries Professor of Business Administration

Marketing, Fuqua School of Business

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Emotion and decision making
Contingent strategy selection in choice

Bhandawat, Vikas - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Olfaction
Neural coding
Drosophila

Bilbo, Staci - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Neuroimmune interactions and behavior
Cytokines and cognition
Early-life origins of risk and resilience

Blazer II, Dan G. - M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
J.P. Gibbons Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine

Community and Family Medicine

Depression
Epidemiology
Late Life

Brannon, Elizabeth - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Evolutionary Anthropology

Cognitive development & developmental cognitive neuroscience
Numerical cognition
Comparative psychology

Browndyke, Jeffrey - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Functional neuroanatomical correlates of postoperative cognitive decline
Major iatrogenic stressors for later cognition in the elderly
Functional neuroanatomy of deceptive behavior

Cabeza, Roberto - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Memory
Emotion
Aging

Calakos, Nicole - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Synaptic plasticity
Basal ganglia function
Dystonia tourette's and obsessive compulsive disorder

Cant, Nell - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Auditory system
Neuroanatomy

Caron, Marc G. - Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology

Cell Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Signal transduction in the brain
Schizophrenia and Depression
Monoamine related behavioral dysfunctions

Charney, Evan - Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the Practice

Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy

Genetics
Developmental biology
Evo-devo

Chartrand, Tanya - Ph.D.
Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Marketing , Fuqua School of Business

Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Social cognition
Consumer behavior
Nonconscious processes

Collins, Leslie - Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Biomedical Engineering; Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine

Signal Processing
Brain Computer Interfaces
Cochlear Implants

Colton, Carol - Ph.D.
Professor

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Neuroimmunology
Alzheimer's disease
Brain redox balanve

Cooper, Harris - Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Research Methodology
Education

Costanzo, Philip - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

DGHI; Kenan Institute; SSRI

Decision making
Substance abuse
Self regulation

Costello, E. Jane - Ph.D.
Professor; Associate Director for Research, Center for Child & Family Policy

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Mental Illness
Childhood and Adolescence
Epidemiology

Curry, John - Ph.D.
Professor; Director of Clinical Psychology

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Adolescent depression
Substance abuse
cognitive behavior therapy

DeBellis, Michael - M.D., M.P.H.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Ptsd and childhood sexual abuse
Functional and anatomical mri

Diaz, Michele - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Reading comprehension
Aging
Figurative language

Dichter, Gabriel - Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Autism
Unipolar depression

Dodge, Kenneth - Ph.D.
William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies; Director, Center for Child and Family Policy

Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Violence
Social information processing
Developmental psychopathology

Donald, Bruce - Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor

Department of Computer Science, and Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and Pratt School of Engineering, Arts & Sciences

Biochemistry, School of Medicine

Nanotechnology for neurobiology
Protein:protein interactions
Computer-aided drug design

Doraiswamy, P. Murali - M.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Medicine, Division of Geriatrics

Memory
Emotion
Imaging

Drea, Christine - Ph.D.
Professor

Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences

Biology

Behavioral ecology
Sexual differentiation
Social behavior

Dunson, David - Ph.D.
Professor

Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences

Statistical modeling
Functional connectivity
Bayesian

Dzirasa, Kafui - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Schizophrenia
Bipolar disorder
Addiction

Egner, Tobias - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Cognitive control
Selective attention
Visual cognition

Eroglu, Çagla - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Cell Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Synaptogenesis
Astrocytes
Extracellular matrix

Farsiu, Sina - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Ophthalmology, School of Medicine

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Vision
Image processing
Imaging

Ferrari, Silvia - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering

Approximate dynamic programming
Systems and control theory
Machine learning

Finkelstein, Gleb - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Physics, Arts & Sciences

Developing intracellular probes

Fischer, Martin - Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor

Chemistry, Arts & Sciences

Neuroimaging

Fitzpatrick, David - Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Functional organization of visual cortex
Development of cortical circuits
In vivo imaging of neural structure and function

Franks, Kevin - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Olfaction
Sensory processing
Neural circuits

Goldstein, David B. - Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine

Genetics of neurological disease
pharmacogenetics
HIV host genetics and human genetic diversity

Grandl, Jörg - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Ion Channel Research Unit

Somatosensation
Nociception
Ion channels

Greenside, Henry - Ph.D.
Professor

Physics, Arts & Sciences

Theoretical neurobiology
How brains generate
Recognize and store temporal sequences

Grill, Warren - Ph.D.
Professor

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Neurobiology; Surgery, School of Medicine

Electrical stimulation of the nervous system for restoration of function
Deep brain stimulation
Neural control of bladder and autonomic function

Groh, Jennifer M. - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, Arts & Sciences

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Multisensory processing
Audition
Motor control and visual processing

Hall, William - Ph.D.
Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Psychology

Visuomotor integration
Motor systems
Eye movements

Hamoudi, Amar - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy

Economics, Arts & Sciences

Executive functioning
Cognitive economics

Hare, Brian - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences

Human cognitive evolution
Social cognition
Domestication

Hariri, Ahmad - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Corticolimbic circuit function
Neuromodulators
Trait anxiety

Harris, Lasana - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Social cognition
Emotion
Decision making

Hartemink, Alexander - Ph.D.
Alexander F. Hehmeyer Associate Professor

Computer Science, Arts & Sciences

Statistical Science and Biology, Arts & Sciences

Neural information flow
Neuro-electrical circuits
Vocal learning

Heller, Katherine - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences

Cognition
Bayesian statistics
Machine learning

Hochgeschwender, Ute - M.D.
Associate Research Professor; Director, Neurotransgenic Laboratory

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Genetically encoded neural effectors
genetic engineering of animal models
Mouse models of neurological and psychiatric diseases

Huettel, Scott - Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

School of Medicine

Neuroeconomics
Functional neuroimaging
Cognition

Izatt, Joseph - Ph.D.
Professor

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Ophthalmology, School of Medicine

Imaging technology

Jarvis, Erich - Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Origin and Mechanisms of Language
Neuroethology
Systems Neurobiology

Jenson, Deborah - Ph.D.
Professor and Director

Romance Studies, Arts & Sciences

Verbal cognition
Mimetic states and mechanisms
Post-traumatic stress

Jiang, Yong-hui - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine

Genetics and epigenetics of neurodevelopmental disorders
Angelman and Prader-Willi Syndrome and Autism
Gene targeting and mouse models

Johnsen, Sönke - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences

Vision
Magnetoreception
Diffuse sensory systems

Johnson, Elizabeth - Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Vision
Color mechanisms
Sensory perception

Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Metabolomics
Biomarkers
Drug discovery

Keefe, Richard - Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Schizophrenia Research Group

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Schizophrenia
Cognitive function
High-risk

Klein, Rebecca - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

MIRECC (VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center)

Amygdala
Apolipoprotein e
Neurophysiology

Kollins, Scott - Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Director, Duke University ADHD Program

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Adhd
Smoking and nicotine

Kuhn, Cynthia - Ph.D.
Professor

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Animal models of drug addiction
Ontogeny of neural circuit activation by rewarding and aversive stimuli
Gonadal steroid hormone action in brain

Kuo, Chay - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Cell Biology; Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Circuitry integration
Postnatal neurogenesis
Stem cell niche function in health and disease

LaBar, Kevin - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Affective and social neuroscience
Memory systems
Fear and anxiety disorders

Lad, Eleonora (Nora) - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Ophthalmology, School of Medicine

Vision
Imaging
Alzheimer's disease

Lad, Nandan - M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine

Neuromodulation
Medical devices
Health outcomes

Lane, James - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Caffeine
Stress
Personality

Lawson, Dewey - Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Physics, Arts & Sciences

Auditory prostheses
Music perception

Lee, Tong - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychostimulant abuse
Novel treatment development
Translational clinical trials

Levin, Edward - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Addiction
Cognition
Neurotoxicology

Liedtke, Wolfgang - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences

Pain
Trp channel
Neurosensory transduction and transmission

Lisanby, Sarah H. - M.D.
Professor and Chair

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Tms
Depression
Brain stimulation

Madden, David - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Psychology and Neuroscience

Aging
Cognitive function
Attention and memory

March, John - M.D., M.P.H.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

biomarker/biosignature discovery and validation
imaging genomics in pediatric psychiatry
Phase I-IV clincial trials / outcomes research

Marsh, Elizabeth - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Learning and memory
Autobiographical memory
Knowledge acquisition

Marx, Christine - M.D., M.A.
Associate Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Neurosteroids
Schizophrenia
Ptsd

Matsunami, Hiroaki - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine

Department of Neurobiology

Olfaction
Pheromone
Chemical senses

McClernon, Francis (Joe) - Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Smoking
Nicotine dependence
Neuroimaging

McNamara, James - M.D.
Duke School of Medicine Professor of Neurosciences, Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Medicine, Division of Neurology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Epileptogenesis
Signaling
Neurotrophins

Meade, Christina - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Drug addiction
Hiv/aids
Mental health

Mikati, Mohamad - M.D.
Professor; Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology

Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Epilepsy
Imaging
Genetics

Mitroff, Stephen - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Visual cognition
Enhancing and modifying cognitive abilities
Development of visual cognition

Moffitt, Terrie E. - Ph.D.
Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Gene-environment interplay in mental disorders
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Cognitive ability assessment

Mooney, Richard - Ph.D.
George Barth Geller Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Sensorimotor integration and imitative learning
Audition
Music and speech

Moore, Scott - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Neuropharmacology
Substance abuse
Amygdala circuitry

Morey, Rajendra - M.S., M.D.
Associate Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Durham VA Medical Center, Arts & Sciences

Ptsd
Tbi
Emotion processing

Morgenlander, Joel - M.D.
Professor and Clinical Chief

Medicine, Division of Neurology, Clinical Services, School of Medicine

Neuroscience Clinical Service Unit

Neurological medical education
Neurological autoimmune diseases
Sports neurology and concussion

Nadler, J. Victor - Ph.D.
Professor

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Epilepsy
Synaptic Transmission
Synaptic Plasticity

Nicolelis, Miguel - M.D., Ph.D.
Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience; Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Neuroengineering
Brain-machine interface
Multi-electrode recording

Nowicki, Stephen - Ph.D.
Professor; Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, School of Medicine

neuroethology
animal communication

Payne, John W. - Ph.D.
Joseph J. Ruvane Professor of Management

Management and Marketing, Fuqua School of Business

Psychology & Neuroscience; Statistics & Decision Sciences, Arts & Sciences

Decision making

Peterchev, Angel V. - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Transcranial brain stimulation (tms, tdcs, ect, mst, tsms)
Depression
Power electronics

Pitt, Geoffrey S. - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Director, Ion Channel Research Unit

Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology; Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Ion channel physiology
Epilepsy
Synaptic plasticity

Platt, Michael - Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Duke Institute for Brain Science, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences

Neural basis of decision-making
Neural basis of social behavior
Evolution of cognition

Premont, Richard - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine

Post-traumatic stress disorder
Parkinson's disease
Anxiety/depression

Provenzale, James - M.D.
Professor

Radiology, Divison of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine

Nanotechnology
Tumors
Brain development

Purves, Dale - M.D.
Professor; Program Director for Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience; Philosophy, Arts & Sciences

Music
Vision
Audition

Reuter-Rice, Karin - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Pediatrics, School of Nursing

School of Medicine

Pediatric traumatic brain injury
Vasospasm
Neurocognitive outcomes

Rezvani, Amir - Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biological Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Psychology and Neuroscince, Arts & Sciences

Alcoholism, nicotine addiction
Cognition, drug development
Drug addiction

Roberts, Craig Dane - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of the Practice

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Arts & Sciences

Learning & memory
Sensory systems
Teaching & learning

Rubin, David C. - Ph.D.
Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Autobiographical memory
Post-traumatic stress disorder

Sapiro, Guillermo - D.Sc.
Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Computer Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Arts & Sciences

Image and video processing
Brain imaging
Cryo-microscopy

Schmajuk, Nestor - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience

Neural network models
Classical conditioning
Causal learning

Schramm-Sapyta, Nicole - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine

Drug addiction
Adolescence
Stress

Schwartz-Bloom, Rochelle - Ph.D.
Professor and Director

Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biological Psychiatry

Neuroscience & pharmacology education

Seaman, William - Ph.D.
Professor

Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences

Neosentience-biomimetics/bioabstraction
Computational insight production
Generative technology-recombinant informatics & poetics

Sherwood, Nina - Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Neuronal cytoskeleton
Synapse formation/maintenance
Hereditary spastic paraplegia

Silver, Debra - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, School of Medicine

Cortical development
Rna regulation
Stem cell division

Simon, Sidney - Ph.D.
Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Gustation
Membrane biophysics

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter - Ph.D.
Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics

Philosophy, Arts & Sciences

Moral judgment
Decision and action

Skene, J. H. Pate - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Genomics
Decision making
Law

Soderling, Scott - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor; Director, Duke Bac Recombineering Core Facility

Cell Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Synapse development
Mental retardation
Actin cytoskeleton

Sommer, Marc - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Vision
Cognition
Eye movements

Song, Allen - Ph.D.
Professor and Director, BIAC

Radiology, School of Medicine

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

MRI acquisition methodology
Brain function
MRI contrast mechanisms

Stacy, Mark - M.D.
Professor and Vice Dean for Clinical Research

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Impulse control disorder in parkinson's disease
Placebo effect
Pd drug development

Steffens, David - M.D., M.H.S.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Medicine

Depression
Dementia
Neuroimaging

Strauman, Timothy - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine

Depression
Addiction
Psychotherapy and behavior change

Strittmatter, Warren - M.D.
Professor

Medicine, Division of Neurology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Alzheimers disease
Huntington's disease

Swartzwelder, Scott - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology and Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Cellular neurophysiology
Neural mechanisms of drug effects and addiction
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

Tomasi, Carlo - Ph.D.
Professor

Computer Science, Arts & Sciences

Computer vision

Tracey, W. Daniel - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Anesthesiology, School of Medicine

Cell Biology; Neurobiology

Nociception and pain
Mechanotransduction
Perception of temperature

Tucci, Debara - M.D.
Professor

Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine

Central auditory system
Auditory system plasticity
Auditory system prostheses

Tung, Jenny - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Evolutionary Anthropology, Arts & Sciences

Animal behavior
Genomics
Baboons

Tupler, Larry - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Neuropsychology
Neuroimaging
Psychopathology

Vidmar, Neil - Ph.D.
Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law

Law, Law School

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Legal decision-making
Medical malpractice litigation
Wrongful convictions

Volkan, Pelin - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Sensory circuit assembly
Olfactory system
Epigenetics

Voyvodic, James - Ph.D.
AssociateProfessor

Radiology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Vision
Brain imaging
Brain tumors

Wang, Fan - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Cell Biology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Mammalian touch sensory system
Regulation of neuronal endomembrane system

Wang, Lihong - M.D, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Depression
Interaction of emotion with cognition
Mild cognitive impairment

Warner, David - M.D.
Professor

Anesthesiology, School of Medicine

Neurobiology; Surgery

Stroke
Traumatic brain injury
Cerebral vasospasm

Wax, Adam - Ph.D.
Theodore Kennedy Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Imaging
Biophotonics

West, Anne - M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Neurobiology, School of Medicine

Epigenetics
Activity-regulated transcription
Synapse development and plasticity

Wetsel, William - Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Mouse Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Analysis Core Facility

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Medicine (Endocrinology)

Neuropsychopharmacology
Mouse models of neuropsychiatric illness
Neuroendocrinology

White, Leonard - Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Community & Family Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy Division, School of Medicine

Neurobiology

Sensory experience and brain development
Cortical maps
Human brain anatomy

Whitfield, Keith - Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Medicine

Aging
Minorities
Genetics

Williams, Christina L. - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Development
Hormones and Nutrients
Neural Plasticity

Woldorff, Marty - Ph.D.
Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology, Arts & Sciences

Attention
Cognitive control
Perceptual awareness

Yin, Henry - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Neurobiology

Goal-directed actions
Decision making
Reward

Yoder, Anne - Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Duke Primate Center

Biology, Arts & Sciences

Evolutionary Anthropology

evolution
genetics and genomics

Zucker, Nancy - Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Psychology & Neuroscience, Arts & Sciences

Anorexia nervosa
Interoception
Social cognition

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