Gabriel Dichter, PhD.  
                                                 
Assistant Professor                                                                                                               Email:dichter@biac.duke.edu
Office Phone: 919-843-6206

Education:
B.A. , Psychology, Haverford College
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University

PhD., Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University
Predoctoral Fellowship, Developmental Psychopathology, Vanderbilt University

Clinical Intern, Durham VA Medical Center

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary Statement :
Dr. Gabriel Dichter's research uses brain imaging to examine executive function deficits in autism and the effects of psychotherapy in affective disorders.

Recent Representative Publications:

1. Dichter, G.S., van der Stelt, O., Boch, J.L., & Belger. A. (2006). Relations among Intelligence, Executive Function, and P300 Event Related Potentials in Schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 194(3):179-87.
2. Belger, A., & Dichter, G. S. (2006). Structural and functional neuroanatomy of schizophrenia. In J. A. Lieberman, S. Stroup & D. Perkins (Eds.), American psychiatric publishing textbook of schizophrenia. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.
3. Dichter, G. S., Freid, C.M., Tomarken, A. J., Addington, S., & Shelton, R. C. (2005). Do Venlafaxine XR and Paroxetine equally influence negative and positive affect?. The Journal of Affective Disorders, 85(3): 333-339.
4. Tomarken, A. J., Dichter, G. S., Garber, J., & Simien, C. (2004). Resting frontal brain activity: linkages to maternal depression and socio-economic status among adolescents. Biological Psychology, 67(1-2), 77-102.
5. Dichter, G.S., Tomarken, A.T., Shelton, R., Sutton, S.K. (2004). Early- and Late-Onset Startle Modulation in Unipolar Depression. Psychophysiology, 41(3):433-40.
6. Tomarken, A. J., Dichter, G. S., Freid, C., Addington, S., & Shelton, R. C. (2004). Assessing the Effects of Bupropion SR on Mood Dimensions of Depression. The Journal of Affective Disorders, 78(3), 235-241.
7. Zald D.H., Boileau I., El-Dearedy W., Gunn R., McGlone F., Dichter G.S., Dagher A. (2004). Dopamine transmission in the human striatum during monetary reward tasks. J Neurosci. 24(17):4105-12.
8. Dichter, G. S., Tomarken, A. J., & Baucom, B. (2002). Startle Modulation Before, During, and After Exposure to Emotional Stimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 43, 191-196