Duke Psychology & Neuroscience

Natasha Parikh Receives Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Congratulations to P&N Ph.D. student Natasha Parikh, recipient of the 2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. The review committee of deans... read more »

P&N Person of the Week: Dalina Mayes

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

P&N has a new staff assistant in Soc-Psych 017B, Dalina Mayes, who started working in the department on November 19th. At Duke, Ms. Mayes will be... read more »

Elika Bergelson Receives DIBS Research Incubator Award

Monday, December 10, 2018

Congratulations to P&N's Elika Bergelson for receiving a 2018-2019 Research Incubator Award from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The... read more »

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Research

Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists...

November 5, 2018

The Duke Identity and Diversity Lab... read more »

P&N Graduate Students and Postdocs Receive...

October 30, 2018

Psychology & Neuroscience is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the... read more »

Moral Reasoning: Why it's hard to change...

August 4, 2018

What makes it so difficult to change our minds about moral issues, despite new... read more »

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Adolescent...

June 25, 2018

Professor John Curry has recorded a DVD, ... read more »

2018 Summer Vertical Integration Program, May 15-...

May 16, 2018

This week P&N kicked off their summer Vertical Integration program (VIP).... read more »

The Eardrums Move When the Eyes Move

January 23, 2018

Duke Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience Jennifer Groh and a team of... read more »

Babies Understand When Words are Related

November 21, 2017

A new study by lead author Elika Bergelson is being reported in a number of... read more »

Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness

July 19, 2017

Sooner or later, almost everyone has an experience that could be diagnosed as a... read more »

Children understand cooperative concepts earlier...

May 25, 2017

The ability to engage in joint actions is a critical step toward becoming a... read more »

Is "Abnormal Psychology" Really all...

April 17, 2017

P&N Clinical Graduate Student Jonathan Schaefer recently wrote a blog post... read more »

Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

April 3, 2017

For P&N doctoral students, the Major Area Paper (MAP) is the first major... read more »

P&N researchers pinpoint brain structure that...

January 27, 2017

New research from the Tobias Egner Lab ... read more »

Makeba Wilbourn honored by President Obama,...

January 11, 2017

Congratulations to P&N's Makeba Wilbourn, who has received the Presidential... read more »

Tomasello Study a Top Breakthrough of 2016

December 30, 2016

Congratulations to P&N Professor Mike Tomasello and his colleagues, whose... read more »

Matt Scult: Emotion Regulation, Mathmatical...

December 7, 2016

Data from a recent P&N brain imaging study found that subjects who had a... read more »

Mapping Emotions in the Brain

October 13, 2016

Work by P&N's Kevin LaBar and colleagues is featured as... read more »

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Our Graduate Training Areas

Duke’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience has five graduate training areas:

Clinical Psychology
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Systems and Integrative Neuroscience

Students apply to and are admitted to a specific training program. Only primary faculty (with appointments to Duke's graduate faculty) and joint graduate training faculty can admit students to the training area(s) they are affiliated with.

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Erica Figueroa

Being a graduate of the Psychology and Neuroscience department at Duke greatly helped me achieve professional success. What I learned about human interactions during my coursework helped me to be a...

Manuela Mejia

Being a Neuroscience graduate from Duke provided me with excellent support and preparation for medical school. The pre-med coursework was rigorous, the advising was welcoming and although I did not...

Lauren (Troyer) Saternus

After undergrad, I went to graduate school to become a school psychologist. The background from Duke psychology classes enabled me to be successful there. While at Duke, I also designed an...

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Charles Jonassaint

As the eldest child of immigrant parents, I wanted to be the first in my family to graduate from college. But I lacked direction and by my senior year of high school I had lost sight of my goals. I...

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Ryan Knowles

I used my Psychology degree and knowledge of consumer patterns/behavior to jump into marketing and sales roles in the CPG world (Chiquita Brands & then P&G). My experience in CPG with well...

David V. Smith

Duke provides a superb intellectual environment that fosters a range of training within psychology and neuroscience. During my time at Duke, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Scott Huettel, who...

Upasana Chandra

The Neuroscience program at Duke is interdisciplinary, and I had the opportunity to take classes from a wide variety of fields (including neurolinguistics, functional neuroimaging, and neurobiology,...

Elizabeth Hackney Davies

My undergrad degree led me to 2 years of IO Psychology consulting in DC. During that time, I was exposed to more healthcare clients and decided to go back to graduate school for my MHA. What advice...

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Juliet Bottorff

My neuroscience classes at Duke completely opened my eyes to academic passion. I came into Duke really not sure what I wanted to major in, but when I found neuroscience, it was the perfect...

Rebecca Brenner

I am currently an MD-PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. Duke’s Neuroscience program both helped me decide to become a physician scientist and gave me valuable tools to succeed in...

Brandon Levy

Duke is a name-brand university and that definitely opens doors. Also, Duke's neuroscience curriculum gave me a broad base of knowledge not just of the nervous system but also chemistry, physics, and...

Hayden Finch

Going to Duke, I was able to conduct original research that led to a first-author publication. This is an experience most people don't get until graduate school (or even after) and made me much more...

Maureen Ritchey

As a P&N student, I had countless opportunities to interact with and learn from faculty at the top of their fields. These informal training experiences were hugely influential in shaping my ideas...

Erin Radley

In my role as a Merchant at Abercrombie & Fitch, I work with a wide array of cross-functional partners every day. When interacting with different people, it is important to understand group...

Alison Papadakis

I benefited from the breadth and depth of opportunities at Duke in the department, in the medical center, across the University, and through collaborations with neighboring universities including the...

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