MD-PhD Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Student, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Nimesha Gerlus is an MD-PhD student in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience. She received her B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University in 2017. After graduating, she worked as a Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Award (IRTA) trainee for the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health until starting at Duke’s Medical Scientist Training Program in 2019. Nimesha is interested in studying how emotion dysregulation is represented in the brain, as well as how treatments and strategies that improve emotion dysregulation affect the brain.