Rachel Alison Adcock
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Dr. Adcock received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Emory University and her MD and PhD in Neurobiology from Yale University. She completed her psychiatry residency training at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at UC-San Francisco and did neurosciences research as a postdoctoral fellow at UC-SF, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and Stanford before joining the Duke faculty in 2007. Her work has been funded by NIDA, NIMH, NSF and Alfred P. Sloan and Klingenstein Fellowships in the Neurosciences, and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, and honored by NARSAD awards, the 2012 National Academy of Sciences Seymour Benzer Lectureship, and the 2015 ABAI BF Skinner Lectureship. The overall goals of her research program are to understand how brain systems for motivation support learning and to use mechanistic understanding of how behavior changes biology to meet the challenge of developing new therapies appropriate for early interventions for mental illness.
Selected Grants
From Phenotype to Mechanism: Mapping the Pathways underlying Risky Choice awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co Investigator). 2009 to 2011
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Chiew, Kimberly S., et al. “Reward Anticipation Dynamics during Cognitive Control and Episodic Encoding: Implications for Dopamine.” Front Hum Neurosci, vol. 10, 2016, p. 555. Pubmed, doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00555. Full Text
Klauser, Paul, et al. “Lack of Evidence for Regional Brain Volume or Cortical Thickness Abnormalities in Youths at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Findings From the Longitudinal Youth at Risk Study.” Schizophr Bull, vol. 41, no. 6, Nov. 2015, pp. 1285–93. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbv012. Full Text
Murty, Vishnu P., et al. “Resting state networks distinguish human ventral tegmental area from substantia nigra.” Neuroimage, vol. 100, Oct. 2014, pp. 580–89. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.047. Full Text
Murty, Vishnu P., and R. Alison Adcock. “Enriched encoding: reward motivation organizes cortical networks for hippocampal detection of unexpected events.” Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol. 24, no. 8, Aug. 2014, pp. 2160–68. Epmc, doi:10.1093/cercor/bht063. Full Text
Kollins, Scott H., and R. Alison Adcock. “ADHD, altered dopamine neurotransmission, and disrupted reinforcement processes: implications for smoking and nicotine dependence.” Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, vol. 52, July 2014, pp. 70–78. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.02.002. Full Text
Dandash, Orwa, et al. “Altered striatal functional connectivity in subjects with an at-risk mental state for psychosis.” Schizophr Bull, vol. 40, no. 4, July 2014, pp. 904–13. Pubmed, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt093. Full Text
Braver, Todd S., et al. “Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: challenges and opportunities.” Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 443–72. Pubmed, doi:10.3758/s13415-014-0300-0. Full Text
Clark, Kait, et al. “Context matters: the structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search.” Appl Ergon, vol. 45, no. 3, May 2014, pp. 528–33. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2013.07.008. Full Text
Yaakub, Siti N., et al. “Preserved working memory and altered brain activation in persons at risk for psychosis.” The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 170, no. 11, Nov. 2013, pp. 1297–307. Epmc, doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12081135. Full Text
Libertus, Klaus, et al. “Size matters: how age and reaching experiences shape infants' preferences for different sized objects.” Infant Behav Dev, vol. 36, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 189–98. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.006. Full Text