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Our developmental cognitive neuroscience specialization offers two things many competing programs do not:

Our DCN program is one of the few in the world to emphasize the key importance of a developmental approach to understanding brain-behavior relations.

The goal of the DCN program is to produce both basic and clinical scientists who are well prepared to make contributions to the rapidly expanding field of human neuroscience.

The DCN program is an interdisciplinary specialization available to graduate students in all programs of our department. The DCN core faculty span all three programs of our department and share a focus on human neuroscience. Adjunct faculty includes researchers and clinical scientists at both the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Denver- Anschutz Medical Campus.

Because this field bridges multiple levels of analysis, it is necessarily collaborative and interdisciplinary. Thus, our graduate students not only develop their own area of expertise but also become conversant with the topics, methods and issues in the broad field of human neuroscience.

Our clinical graduate students train in the University's Developmental Neuropsychology Clinic early on—long before students in competing programs, which offer this type of training during internship rotations or clinical neuropsychology post-doc.

Our clinical graduate students train in the University's Developmental Neuropsychology Clinic early on—long before students in competing programs, which offer this type of training during internship rotations or clinical neuropsychology post-doc.

Students learn to understand human neuroscience in both typical and abnormal populations by studying genetics, imaging, network models and behavioral studies. Besides development, and the reciprocal relation between studies of normal and abnormal behavior, other key themes of the DCN program are stress and health, and cognition-emotion relations.

CORE FACULTY

Kimberly Chiew
Elysia Davis
Anne DePrince
Julia Dmitrieva
Pilyoung Kim
Erika Manczak
Lauren McGrath
Danny McIntosh
Kateri McRae 
Rob Roberts
Michelle Rozenman
Peter Sokol-Hessner
Tim Sweeny
Sarah Watamura