Kathryn Dickerson
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesOverview
Kathryn (Katie) Dickerson completed her B.A. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester in 2006. She then joined Dr. Mauricio Delgado's lab at Rutgers University-Newark earning her Ph.D. in Behavioral and Neural Sciences in 2011. She moved to Durham and joined the lab of Dr. Alison Adcock at Duke University where she was a post-doc from 2011-2016. She received a KL2 award in 2016 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University.
Katie is interested in how reward and motivation influence what we learn and remember. She focuses on studying the dopamine system in healthy humans and clinical populations using a combination of behavioral, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and real-time fMRI methods.
Positions
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine
2021 School of Medicine
Member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in the University Institutes and Centers
2018 University Institutes and Centers
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences in the University Institutes and Centers
2018 University Institutes and Centers
Education
Ph.D. 2011
2011 Rutgers University
Publications, Grants & Awards
Offices & Contact
Durham, NC
27708