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Brian Knutson, PhD

  • Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Stanford Health Policy Associate

Department of Psychology
470 Jordan Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2130

(650) 723-7431 (voice)
(650) 725-5699 (fax)

Biography

Brian Knutson is an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, and a CHP/PCOR associate. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotional experience and expression. He investigates this topic with a number of methods including self-report, measurement of nonverbal behavior, comparative ethology, psychopharmacology, and functional brain imaging. His long-term goal is to understand the neurochemical and neuroanatomical mechanisms responsible for emotional experience and to explore the implications of these findings for the assessment and treatment of clinical disorders of affect and addiction, as well as economic behavior.

Knutson has received Young Investigator Awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Association for Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychiatric Association, and the New York Academy of Science. He received BA degrees in experimental psychology and comparative religion from Trinity University, a PhD in experimental psychology from Stanford, and has conducted postdoctoral research in affective neuroscience at UC-San Francisco and at the National Institutes of Health.

publications

Journal Articles
December 2007

Affective Influence on Judgments and Decisions: Moving Towards Core Mechanisms

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December 2007

Linking Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and Blood Oxygenation

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December 2007

Neural Predictors of Purchases

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