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Timothy J. Strauman

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Duke Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
316 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment; please email to arrange a time to meet.  

Selected Grants


2/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030

Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a Time Restricted Feeding intervention among older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2026

Couple Communication Skills Training for Advanced Cancer

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

Duke Roybal Center

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

Impact of Lifestyle Disruptions on Problem Drinking Behavior and Drinking Habit Development in Young Adulthood

FellowshipMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024

Enhancing the Transition from Hospital to Home for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury and Families

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2023

Resilience Measurement, Prediction, and its Role in Older Adults with Late Stage Lung Cancer

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Wake Forest University School Of Medicine · 2020 - 2022

Motivated Memory as Therapeutic Target

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2017

Student Resilience

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2013 - 2016

Instructed Activation of the Human Dopaminergic Midbrain using Real-Time fMRI

FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2016

Improving Adherence to Recommended Surveillance in Breast Cancer Survivors

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015

Self-Regulation Failure: Identifying and Modifying a Risk Phenotype

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2014

Brain Imaging the Effects of High Sensation Value Anti-Drug PSAs

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2013

Discrimination & Short & Long-Term Risks for Depression

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2011

Stress and Behavior in Health and Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1989 - 2011

Training in Psychological Intervention Research

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2011

Project AIM: Preventing Illicit Substance Use Among Middle School Children

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2010

A Linux Cluster Computational Facility for Neuroimaging Research

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2010

Self/Brain/Behavior Systems in Depression

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2003 - 2007

Self System Therapy and Chronic Low Back Pain

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2007

Cognitive change processes in psychotherapy

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2004

Self-Regulation, Depressive/Anxious Symptoms, and URIs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1999 - 2004

Self/Brain/Behavior Systems: Cognition and Neurophysiology

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2003

Fellowships, Gifts & Other Supported Research


Seed Grant: Building a Community-Based Intervention Science Network at Duke · 2023 PI · Awarded by: Duke Office for Faculty Advancement

External Relationships


  • Cambridge University Press

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