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Avshalom Caspi

Edward M. Arnett Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
2020 W Main Street Suite 201, Box 104410, Durham, NC 27708
2020 W Main Street Suite 201, Box 104410, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Quantifying Individual Differences in Midlife Structural Brain Integrity Associated with Later AD/ADRD Risk

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2015 - 2027

Aging in 1000 healthy midlife adults: Phase 52 of the Dunedin Study

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027

Summer Scholars in Genome Sciences & Medicine

Inst. Training Prgm or CMESignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2026

Validating a 3rd-generation methylation measure of accelerated aging: DunedinPoAm4x

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2022 - 2026

Comprehensive portrait of long-term cannabis users: Are they ready for old age?

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Behavior and Physiology in Aging

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2015 - 2025

Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Meta-Flexibility

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

Early-life Psychological Origins of Vaccine Intentions

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Psychological Association · 2022 - 2023

Neuropsychological and genomic signatures of violence exposure in childhood

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019

Generating new knowledge to support reversibility interventions

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017

Genetic and Behavioral Predictors of Susceptibility to Social Stress

FellowshipCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2015

Behavior And Physiology In Aging

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1999 - 2015

Social Inequality and Children's Mental Health

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014

A developmental model of gene-environment interplay in SUDs

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2014

Uncovering and confirming gene-environment interactions in psychopathology

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2012

Development of Amygdala-Prefrontal Interactions

ResearchSponsor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2005 - 2010

External Relationships


  • Cambridge University Press
  • Harvard University Press
  • King's College London
  • ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit
  • Trudiagnostic.
  • University of Oslo

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