Dr. Hariri was recently was senior author of an important paper that received attention in the field and from the popular media. This paper, published in the journal Psychological Science in 2020, with first author Maxwell Elliott is titled What is the test-retest reliability of common task-functional MRI measures? New Empirical Evidence and Meta-Analysis, and we spend much of the podcast talking about its implications and how we can address the challenges it presents and continue to move the field forward. The podcast, I believe is extremely informative and ultimately quite positive and hopeful as we have really just begun to get our collective heads around this issue to address it.

Guest:

Ahmad Hariri is Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, where he is also the Director of the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. After completing his B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1997) in evolutionary biology at the University of Maryland, Dr. Hariri completed his Ph.D. (2000) in the UCLA Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience with Dr. Susan Bookheimer. He next completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health with Dr. Daniel Weinberger. From 2003-2009, Dr. Hariri was first Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.