Our People

Dalhousie's Psychology and Neuroscience faculty are experts in a number of distinct, but complementary, research areas and have a strong commitment to integrating their research interests into their training and teaching.

Our clear strengths are in training knowledge creators in the science of the mind, brain, and behaviour and excellent clinicians who apply this knowledge. These strengths and this approach attract strong graduate students, who contribute significantly to a thriving research environment.

We also educate many undergraduate students who benefit from our strong and diverse faculty and also from a departmental mindset to not just teach the facts, but to educate students in how to think critically and analytically about scientific issues.

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Aaron Newman, Chair

aaron.newman@dal.ca
(902) 494-1911
LSC 3325

Neuroimaging, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Language, Reading Development, Second Language Acquisition, Data Science

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Shelley Adamo 

shelley.adamo@dal.ca
(902) 494-8853
LSC  3324

Invertebrate behavioural physiology, Comparative psychoneuroimmunology, Ecoimmunology, cephalopod behaviour


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Sean Barrett

sean.barrett@dal.ca
(902) 494-2956
LSC  2525

Addiction, Neuroscience, Clinical psychology

 

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Julie Blais

julie.blais@dal.ca

Risk assessment, risk communication, psychopathy, personality, political psychology

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Janusz Borycz

jborycz@dal.ca
(902) 494-8826
LSC  3319

Neurotransmitters and their transporters – cellular and molecular mechanisms investigated using invertebrate and vertebrate models. Currently mostly focused on histamine (photoreceptor neurotransmitter) recycling in the eye of Drosophila.

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Richard Brown

richard.brown@dal.ca
(902) 494-3647
LSC  3335

Behavioural endocrinology, Developmental psychobiology, Drugs and behaviour, Behaviour of transgenic and mutant mice, Development, Animal behaviour, Memory

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Lucia Caceres

Lucia.Caceres@dal.ca

Developmental Neuroscience, Neuro-glial communication, Cellular mechanisms, Neuromuscular functions, Vertebrate and invertebrate neurobiology

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Christine Chambers
Joint Appointment, Pediatrics

christine.chambers@dal.ca
(902) 470-8877
IWK

Health psychology, pain in children and their families, social media, knowledge translation, patient engagement

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John Christie

john.christie@dal.ca
(902) 494-4573
LSC  2519

Attention, Memory, Learning

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Penny Corkum

penny.corkum@dal.ca
(902) 494-5177
LSC 2521

Clinical psychology, Sleep and childhood psychopathology, Psycho-social interventions, School psychology, Health

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Nathan Crowder

nathan.crowder@dal.ca
(902) 494-6025
LSC 3337

Neuroscience, Vision, Electrophysiology, Optogenetics, Development, Neuroanatomy, Psychophysics

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Hélène Deacon

helene.deacon@dal.ca
(902) 494-3229
LSC 2337

Reading and spelling development, Bilingualism, Reading difficulties

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Kevin Duffy

kevin.duffy@dal.ca
(902) 494-3944
LSC 2338

Development, Neuroscience, Vision impairment, Cellular mechanisms,Neuroplasticity

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Gail Eskes
Joint Appointment, Psychiatry

gail.eskes@dal.ca
(902) 494-4032
LSC 2336

Cognitive impairment, Dementia, Executive functioning, Memory,Neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, Rehabilitation, Working memory

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Tamara Franklin

tamara.franklin@dal.ca 
(902) 494-2923
LSC 2526

Neuroscience, epigenetics, in vivo electrophysiology, animal behaviour, neuroconnectivity, sociability

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Simon Gadbois

simon.gadbois@dal.ca 
(902) 494-8848
LSC 3326

Animal behaviour, Neuroscience, Olfactory processing, Learning, Behavioural endocrinology, Canids, Reptiles

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Sophie Jacques

sophie.jacques@dal.ca
(902) 494-8055
LSC 2336

Development, Cognitive psychology, Self-control, Socio-cognitive development, Socio-emotional development, Cognitive development

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Shannon Johnson

shannon.johnson@dal.ca
(902) 494-4504
LSC 3371

Development, Cognition, Social cognition, Typical and atypical development, Autism spectrum, Cognitive neuropsychology, Clinical psychology
 
 

Tim Juckes

tjuckes@dal.ca
(902) 494-1855
LSC  3320

Sociopsychology, History of psychology, Scientific writing, Social influence

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Raymond Klein

ray.klein@dal.ca
(902) 494-6551
LSC 2535

Attention, Perception, Cognitive neuroscience, Applied cognitive psychology

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Kevin LeBlanc

Kevin.LeBlanc@dal.ca
LSC 5215

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Sean Mackinnon

mackinnon.sean@dal.ca
(902) 494-3385
LSC 2540

Personality, multivariate statistics, alcohol, well-being, relationships

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Ian Meinertzhagen

i.a.meinertzhagen@dal.ca
(902) 494-2131
LSC 2388

Development, Neuroscience, 3-D visualization and reconstruction,Invertebrate neurobiology, Synaptic fine structure, Electron microscopy,Connectomics

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Donald Mitchell

d.e.mitchell@dal.ca
(902) 494-6419
LSC 3269

Development, neuroscience, behavioural methods, sensory systems neuroscience, stereoscopic vision, visual disorders, visual development, amblyopia

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Chris Moore

chris.moore@dal.ca
(902) 494-3540
LSC 3321

Development

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Libby Myles


libby.myles@dal.ca

Gut microbiome and probiotics, Diet and probiotic interactions, Neuroendocrine system effects, Developmental programming, Metabolic and mental health

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Alissa Pencer

alissa.pencer@dal.ca
(902) 494-4466
LSC 2538

Emerging adults, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Early interventions for severe mental illness, First episode psychosis, Anxiety disorders, Addictions

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Tara Perrot

tara.perrot@dal.ca
LSC 2535

Neuroscience, Development, Epigenetics, Behavioural endocrinology, Adolescence, Stress, Prenatal stress, Sex differences

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Leslie Phillmore

leslie.phillmore@dal.ca
(902) 494-2794
LSC 3338

Learning, Memory, Songbirds, Perception, Neurogenesis,Neuroplasticity, Seasonality

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Natalie Rosen

Natalie.Rosen@dal.ca
(902) 494-4044
LSC 3339

Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Human sexuality, Pain

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Meghan Rossi

meghan.rossi@dal.ca
(902) 494-2262
LSC 2325

Clinical psychology, Sexuality and close relationships, Pain, Sexual function/dysfunction, Medically assisted reproduction, Acute and chronic conditions (oncology, cardiac health, infertility)

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Simon Sherry

simon.sherry@dal.ca
(902) 494-7719 
LSC 2537

Clinical psychology, depression, personality, perfectionism, psychopathology, suicide, eating disorders

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Erin Sparks

Erin.Sparks@dal.ca

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Jennifer Stamp

jennifer.stamp@dal.ca
(902) 494-3432
LSC 2533

Addiction, Neuroscience, Steroid hormones and behaviour, Stress

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Leanne Stevens

leanne.stevens@dal.ca
(902) 494-6809
LSC 5215

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Sherry Stewart
Joint Appointment, Psychiatry

sherry.stewart@dal.ca
(902) 494-4546
LSC 2530

Addictions, Anxiety disorders, Comorbidity, Treatment matching,Problem gambling, Alcohol abuse, Personality, Substance use motives

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Natalie Stratton

natalie.stratton@dal.ca
LSC 2524

Sexual function/dysfunction, sexual and mental health interventions, mood disorders, anxiety and anxiety-reated disorders, borderline personality disorder, clinical psychology and health psychology

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Tracy Taylor-Helmick

tracy.taylor-helmick@dal.ca
(902) 494-3001
LSC 2529

Memory, Intentional forgetting, Directed forgetting, Mnemonics,Cognition

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Rebecca Tucker

Rebecca.Tucker@dal.ca

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Drew Weatherhead

drew.weatherhead@dal.ca
LSC 2337

Language acquisition, sociolinguistics, social cognition, cognitive development, infancy

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Ian Weaver

ian.weaver@dal.ca
Office: (902) 494-1133
Lab: (902) 494-1088
LSC 3340

Neurobehavioural epigenetic mechanisms, Early life experience,Steroid hormone function, DNA and chromatin modification, Programming of gene expression, Cortical development, Endocrine and behavioural stress responses, Pharmacological interventions, Psycho-social interventions

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Igor Yakovenko

Igor.Yakovenko@dal.ca
(902) 494-1074
LSC 3319

Change determinants across addictive behaviours, Transdiagnostic addiction and comorbidity, Cannabis use and disordered gambling, Online substance use interventions

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