
Education and Training
- Resident in Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, 2010 - 2016
- M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 2009
- Ph.D., Duke University, 2007
In the News
- A Call for Action on Structural Racism in Scientific FundingOctober 30, 2020
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa: For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also PersonalJuly 21, 2020
- For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also PersonalJuly 21, 2020
- Graduate School Inducts Three into Outstanding Alumni SocietyAugust 30, 2019
- General Anesthesia Hijacks Sleep Circuitry to Knock You OutApril 18, 2019
- Dzirasa and Cook Named to American Society for Clinical InvestigationDecember 14, 2018
- Building a Better BrainAugust 6, 2018
- Networks of Brain Activity Predict Vulnerability to DepressionMarch 1, 2018
- Chatter in the Deep Brain Spurs Empathy in RatsJune 23, 2017
- Inspiring the Young African-American Physician-ScientistFebruary 15, 2017
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa Discusses the Next Big Idea in Brain ResearchOctober 18, 2016
- Duke Brain Researchers Receive Award From Keck FoundationAugust 9, 2016
- Control Of A Timekeeping Circuit In The Brain Alters MoodJune 23, 2016
- Neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa Honored at White HouseMay 9, 2016
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa: A look at maniaApril 14, 2016
- Neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa Earns Presidential Early Career AwardFebruary 19, 2016
- Allen Song Named Interim Director of Brain InstituteJune 26, 2015
- New study identifies why some deal with stress betterJuly 30, 2014
- A New Brain-Based Marker of Stress SusceptibilityJuly 29, 2014
Selected Grants
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
- Dissecting and modifying temporal dynamics underlying stress dysfunction
- Neurobiology Training Program
- 2019 Gilliam Fellowship - Elise Adamson
- Reversing Brain Network Mechanisms Underlying Depression Vulnerability and Depression Pathology
- Duke CTSA (TL1)
- Network Dynamics of Negative and Positive Valence Systems in Decision Making
- Uncovering Population-Level Cellular Relationships to Behavior via Mesoscale Networks
- Engineering Gap Junctions for the Study and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Medical Scientist Training Program
- University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
- A FULLY BIOLOGICAL PLATFORM FOR MONITORING MESOSCALE NEURAL ACTIVITY
- Identifying Convergent Networks Underlying Sleep Disruption In Autism Spectrum Disorder Mouse Models
- Network Dynamics of Negative and Positive Valence Systems in Decision Making
- A fully biological platform for monitoring mesoscale neural activity
- Engineering gap junctions for the study and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Environmental Toxins and Microglia-Synapse Interactions in Autism
- Neuromuscular Control of Primate Eye Movements
- Molecular and circuitry mechanism underlying autism behaviors in Shank3 mouse models
- Unmasking a Role for Cortical Dopamine D4 Receptors in Controlling Circuit Dynamics and Behavior
- Hartwell Fellowship
- Multilevel integration to understand, treat, and prevent depression
- Unraveling the neural gate to consciousness
- Akt/GSK-3 Signaling Cascade and the Actions of Dopamine
- The neurophysiology of impulsive sensation seeking
- Simultaneous and Bidirectional Chemogenetic Control of Mesolimbic and Nigrostriatal Circuits
- Molecular and circuitry mechanism underlying autism behaviors in Shank3 mouse models
- Network Dynamics of Positive and Negative Valence Systems in Decision Making
- Environmental Toxins and Microglia-Synapse Interactions in Autism
- Enabling Stress Resistance
- Basic predoctoral training in neuroscience
- A novel neural circuit analysis paradigm to model autism in mice
- BRAIN EAGER: Bayesian Models of Translational Neural Networks: Motivation and Reward
- The 5-HT theory of depression tested in a naturalistic model of 5-HT deficiency
- Characterizing sensorimotor gaiting dysfunction in mouse models of schizophrenia