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.
Education and Training
- Yale University School of Medicine, M.D. 1999
- Yale University, Ph.D. 1999
Selected Grants and Awards
- Neurobiology Training Program
- Duke CTSA (TL1)
- Medical Scientist Training Program
- Targeting reward dysfunction as a mechanism to improve smoking cessation
- Longitudinal Investigation of the Neurobiological Underpinnings of Risk Behavior in ADHD throughout the Adolescent Transition: The Key Role of Cognitive Control and Motivation Network Development
- Increasing Motivation in ADHD Via Self-activation of VTA
- Instructed Activation of the Human Dopaminergic Midbrain Using Real-Time fMRI in Nicotine-Dependent Individuals
- Smoking/Nicotine Dependence in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Modeling the Neurobehavioral Basis of Extrinsic and Volitional Motivation in ADHD
- Environment Cue-Reactivity: Brain, Behavior and Clinical Outcomes in Tobacco Use
- Characterizing Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
- Basic predoctoral training in neuroscience
- Connectivity of the Dopaminergic Midbrain During Learned Regulation of Intrinsic Motivation
- BRAIN EAGER: Bayesian Models of Translational Neural Networks: Motivation and Reward
- Acute and chronic nicotine modulation of reinforcement learning
- A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis
- Motivated Memory as Therapeutic Target
- Instructed Activation of the Human Dopaminergic Midbrain using Real-Time fMRI
- Training in Fundamental &Translational Neuroscience
- Brain Imaging Studies of Negative Reinforcement in Humans
- From Phenotype to Mechanism: Mapping the Pathways underlying Risky Choice