Kafui Dzirasa
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor
Appointments and Affiliations
- K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Associate Professor in Neurobiology, without tenure
- Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
- Investigator in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Contact Information
- Office Location: Bryan Research Bldg, Room 361, Durham, NC 27710
- Office Phone: (919) 681-7371
- Email Address: kafui.dzirasa@duke.edu
Education
- Duke University School of Medicine, 2016
- M.D. Duke University School of Medicine, 2009
- Ph.D. Duke University, 2007
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Elected Member. National Academy of Medicine. 2021
- HHMI Investigator. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2021
Courses Taught
- NEUROBIO 393: Research Independent Study
- NEUROBIO 793: Research in Neurobiology
- NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1
- PSY 394: Research Independent Study
In the News
- Duke Scientists Find Brain Network That Makes Mice Mingle (Mar 15, 2022)
- Kafui Dzirasa Elected to National Academy of Medicine (Oct 19, 2021 | School of Medicine)
- Two Duke Brain Scientists Named Howard Hughes Investigators (Sep 17, 2021)
- A Call for Action on Structural Racism in Scientific Funding (Oct 30, 2020 | School of Medicine)
- For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also Personal (Jul 21, 2020)
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa: For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also Personal (Jul 21, 2020)
- Graduate School Inducts Three into Outstanding Alumni Society (Aug 30, 2019 | Graduate School)
- General Anesthesia Hijacks Sleep Circuitry to Knock You Out (Apr 18, 2019)
- Dzirasa and Cook Named to American Society for Clinical Investigation (Dec 14, 2018)
- Building a Better Brain (Aug 6, 2018 | Duke Medicine Alumni Magazine)
- Networks of Brain Activity Predict Vulnerability to Depression (Mar 1, 2018 | Duke University)
- Chatter in the Deep Brain Spurs Empathy in Rats (Jun 23, 2017)
- Inspiring the Young African-American Physician-Scientist (Feb 15, 2017)
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa Discusses the Next Big Idea in Brain Research (Oct 18, 2016)
- Duke Brain Researchers Receive Award From Keck Foundation (Aug 9, 2016)
- Control Of A Timekeeping Circuit In The Brain Alters Mood (Jun 23, 2016)
- Neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa Honored at White House (May 9, 2016)
- Dr. Kafui Dzirasa: A look at mania (Apr 14, 2016 | PBS “Ride the Tiger” documentary)
- Neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa Earns Presidential Early Career Award (Feb 19, 2016)
- Allen Song Named Interim Director of Brain Institute (Jun 26, 2015)
- New study identifies why some deal with stress better (Jul 30, 2014 | USA Today)
- A New Brain-Based Marker of Stress Susceptibility (Jul 29, 2014)
Representative Publications
- Caron, KM; Dzirasa, K, Marc G. Caron (1946-2022)., Neuron, vol 110 no. 13 (2022), pp. 2050-2051 [10.1016/j.neuron.2022.06.012] [abs].
- Mague, SD; Talbot, A; Blount, C; Walder-Christensen, KK; Duffney, LJ; Adamson, E; Bey, AL; Ndubuizu, N; Thomas, GE; Hughes, DN; Grossman, Y; Hultman, R; Sinha, S; Fink, AM; Gallagher, NM; Fisher, RL; Jiang, Y-H; Carlson, DE; Dzirasa, K, Brain-wide electrical dynamics encode individual appetitive social behavior., Neuron, vol 110 no. 10 (2022), pp. 1728-1741.e7 [10.1016/j.neuron.2022.02.016] [abs].
- Jaaro-Peled, H; Kumar, S; Hughes, D; Sumitomo, A; Kim, S-H; Zoubovsky, S; Hirota-Tsuyada, Y; Zala, D; Bruyere, J; Katz, BM; Huang, B; Flores, R; Narayan, S; Hou, Z; Economides, AN; Hikida, T; Wetsel, WC; Deisseroth, K; Mori, S; Brandon, NJ; Tanaka, M; Ishizuka, K; Houslay, MD; Saudou, F; Dzirasa, K; Sawa, A; Tomoda, T, Regulation of sensorimotor gating via Disc1/Huntingtin-mediated Bdnf transport in the cortico-striatal circuit., Mol Psychiatry, vol 27 no. 3 (2022), pp. 1805-1815 [10.1038/s41380-021-01389-3] [abs].
- Liston, C; Roberts, A; Dzirasa, K; Geschwind, D; Ahmari, SE; Lüscher, C, Understanding the biological basis of psychiatric disease: What's next?, Cell, vol 185 no. 1 (2022), pp. 1-3 [10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.010] [abs].
- Gallagher, NM; Dzirasa, K; Carlson, D, Directed Spectral Measures Improve Latent Network Models Of Neural Populations., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol 34 (2021), pp. 7421-7435 [abs].