“Medial prefrontal pathways for the contextual regulation of extinguished fear in humans”
Kevin S. LaBar is a Professor in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and is Head of the Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lafayette College and earned his Ph.D. at New York University. He completed postdoctoral studies at Yale University and was an Instructor of Neurology at Northwestern University Medical School prior to joining the Duke faculty in 1999. His research focuses on the neural correlates of emotion-cognition interactions using psychophysiology and brain imaging in healthy and psychiatric populations. Dr. LaBar received Young Investigator awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, as well as a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2010 and received the honorary Frijda Chair in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2012. He has published over 125 journal articles and book chapters, and is a senior editor and co-author of the Sinauer textbook Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience. His work is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
By Christian Mendoza, and Kofi Boateng