Find the psychology and neuroscience PhD programs that match your research interests

How brain structure and function develop across childhood and adolescence and relate to behavior.

143 PIs across 5 universities

Neurodegenerative disease research covering amyloid, tau, neuroinflammation, and early biomarkers.

108 PIs across 5 universities

Neural mechanisms of encoding, consolidation, and retrieval, including hippocampal and cortical circuits.

84 PIs across 5 universities

How cognition changes with age, including reserve, compensation, and interventions to preserve function.

73 PIs across 5 universities

Structural and functional brain imaging methods and their application to cognition and disease.

39 PIs across 5 universities

Sleep architecture, circadian biology, and the bidirectional link between sleep and mental health.

39 PIs across 5 universities

Mood disorder research spanning etiology, treatment mechanisms, and prevention of major depression.

38 PIs across 5 universities

How emotions are generated and regulated, spanning amygdala-prefrontal circuits and clinical applications.

33 PIs across 5 universities

Substance use disorder research spanning reward circuitry, craving, relapse, and treatment access.

31 PIs across 5 universities

Mechanisms of acute and chronic pain, central sensitization, and non-opioid analgesic strategies.

31 PIs across 5 universities

Structural and cultural determinants of mental health outcomes and treatment access across populations.

26 PIs across 5 universities

Attention, workload, vigilance, and human interaction with automation and complex systems.

26 PIs across 5 universities

Synaptic and structural plasticity, recovery after injury, and stimulation-based interventions.

26 PIs across 4 universities

Research on generalized anxiety, panic, phobias, and social anxiety, including exposure-based treatment mechanisms.

24 PIs across 4 universities

Post-traumatic stress research including fear extinction, memory reconsolidation, and trauma-focused therapies.

18 PIs across 4 universities

Developmental science examining cognitive, emotional, and social growth across childhood and adolescence.

16 PIs across 4 universities

Autism research including early detection, social communication, sensory processing, and adult outcomes.

15 PIs across 4 universities

Value-based choice, reinforcement learning, and reward circuitry across health and psychopathology.

14 PIs across 3 universities

Attention and impulse-control disorders across childhood and adulthood, including behavioral and pharmacological intervention research.

12 PIs across 4 universities

Concussion and TBI research including recovery trajectories, chronic effects, and rehabilitation.

9 PIs across 4 universities

Psychosis research including prodromal detection, cognitive remediation, and antipsychotic mechanisms.

8 PIs across 4 universities

Research on anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, and body image disturbance.

5 PIs across 4 universities

Neural bases of social cognition including empathy, mentalizing, and social reward.

5 PIs across 3 universities

Suicide risk detection, ideation-to-action theories, and crisis intervention research.

3 PIs across 3 universities