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Maggie Sweitzer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, where she also serves as the Director of the Clinical Research Unit and is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute and the Center for Brain Imaging Analysis. Her primary research program focuses on elucidating the neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying addictive disorders and translating this knowledge into effective interventions. Dr. Sweitzer's work emphasizes dysregulated reward processing and cognitive control as key transdiagnostic mechanisms contributing to the high rates of comorbidity between cigarette smoking and psychiatric disorders, which ultimately increases vulnerability to relapse. She utilizes a combination of functional neuroimaging, laboratory behavioral pharmacology, and ecological momentary assessment to address her research topics. Ongoing projects in her lab examine neurobehavioral mechanisms contributing to the risk of substance use in young adults with a history of childhood adversity and aim to identify mechanisms for intervention targets concerning the comorbidity of tobacco use and chronic pain.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)