Dr. Kafui Dzirasa

Dr. Dzirasa’s lab is uncovering brain-wide electrical patterns that define emotional states, laying groundwork for neuromodulation-based psychiatric therapies.

Dr. Kafui Dzirasa is the K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor at Duke University, with appointments in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery, and is an investigator at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. His research focuses on how disruptions in the brain’s electrical networks affect emotions and contribute to psychiatric disorders. Using innovative tools in psychiatry, neurophysiology, and biomedical engineering, his team studies the unique brain activity patterns linked to emotional states and tests whether restoring healthy brain rhythms can improve mood and behavior. This work is opening new pathways toward treatments for depression and other serious mental health conditions.