Ahmad Hariri is Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience and Investigator in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke this summer, Dr. Hariri served as the director of the Developmental Imaging Genetics Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hariri received both a BS and MS from the University of Maryland where he studied evolutionary biology. In 2000, he completed his PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA working with Dr. Susan Bookheimer. He joined the faculty at Pitt in 2003 after working as a research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Danny Weinberger at the NIMH.
Dr. Hariri's research is focused on using modern molecular genetics and neuroimaging methods to identify specific biological pathways that help shape individual differences in temperament and personality as well as related risk for neuropsychiatric disease. His program of research also employs pharmacological challenge fMRI paradigms and multimodal PET/fMRI neuroimaging to identify specific molecular mechanisms through which individual differences in behaviorally-relevant brain function emerges. The long-term goals of Dr. Hariri's research program are to identify neurobiological pathways mediating variability in complex behaviors and related risk for neuropsychiatric disease that will allow for the development of more effective, individually tailored disease treatment and, ultimately, prevention.
Findings from Dr. Hariri's program of research have been published in Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Trend in Cognitive Sciences and the Annual Review of Neuroscience. In August 2009, Dr. Hariri's contributions to the science of individual differences will be recognized by the APA who will be presenting him with the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
Lahey BB, McNealy K, Knodt A, Zald DH, Sporns O, Manuck SB, Flory JD, Applegate B, Rathouz PJ, Hariri AR, Neuroimage. 2012 Feb 10;. Abstract
Sweitzer MM, Donny EC, Hariri AR, Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012 Feb 16;. Abstract
Joeyen-Waldorf J, Nikolova YS, Edgar N, Walsh C, Kota R, Lewis DA, Ferrell R, Manuck SB, Hariri AR, Sibille E, Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jan 19;. Abstract
Carré JM, Murphy KR, Hariri AR, Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2011 Dec 23;. Abstract
Josephs RA, Telch MJ, Hixon JG, Evans JJ, Lee H, Knopik VS, McGeary JE, Hariri AR, Beevers CG, Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2011 Oct 4;. Abstract
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