| Post: | Professor of Experimental Psychology |
| Location: | Pevensey 1 1C01 |
| Email: | T.Duka@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8879 |
| UK: | (01273) 678879 |
| International: | +44 1273 678879 |
Biography
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Medical School, University of Athens, 1965-1971
Doctor of Medicine degree, 1971
Postgraduate student Pharmacology Department, Medical School, University of Athens, 1972-1975
Research Doctorate 'The effect of chlorpromazine on the behaviour of thyroxine-treated rats', 1975
Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, University of Athens, 1975-1977
Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, 1977-1981
Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 1981-1984
Research Scientist and then Head of department CNS Human Pharmacology, Schering AG, Berlin, 1984-1994
Senior Lecturer, Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, 1995-1999
Reader in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, 1999-2003
Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, 2003-present
Admissions Tutor BSc Psychology, 1999- 2002
Member of Exam Board, 2002-present
Course organiser: Biological Bases of Mental Disorders
Discipline Leader for Neuroscience
Module Leader Neuroscience & Behaviour for the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS)
Research
My research interests are in the cognitive and emotional mechanisms involved in drug addiction using as examples alcohol and nicotine. I am looking at how attentional bias to naturalistic alcohol cues and 'craving' for alcohol develops in alcoholics, and the way that alcoholics perceive, interpret and feel emotions, in particular fear, anger and disgust. Under the same research umbrella, I study how alcohol effects on cognitive processes may influence drinking behaviour in young social drinkers. I am also looking at whether emotional responses to smoking associated stimuli represent conditioned responses and how they can influence smoking behaviour. The way that alcohol influences our memories with and without awareness is another area of my research interests.Teaching
Biological Bases of Mental Disorders (Course Organiser)
Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
Psychobiology of Addiction
MSc in Drug Misuse
Discipline Leader for Neuroscience and Module Leader Neuroscience & Behaviour for the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS)
Publications
Hogarth LC, Dickinson A. & Duka T. (2005) Explicit knowledge of stimulusoutcome contingencies and stimulus control of selective attention and instrumental action in human smoking behaviour. Psychopharmacology, 177(4):428-37
Duka T, Townshend JM (2004). The priming effect of alcohol pre-load on attentional bias to alcohol-related stimuli. Psychopharmacology 176: 353-362
Knowles SKZ, Duka T (2004). Does alcohol affect memory for emotional and non-emotional experiences in different ways? Behavioural Pharmacology 15: 111-121
Duka T, Gentry J, Ripley T et al (2004) Consequences of multiple withdrawal from alcohol Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. 28(2):233-246
Hogarth LC, Dickinson A. & Duka T. (2003) Discriminative stimuli that control instrumental tobacco-seeking by human smokers also command selective attention. Psychopharmacology 168: 435-45
Townshend JM & Duka T (2003). Mixed Emotions: Alcoholics' impairments in the recognition of specific emotional facial expressions. Neuropsychologia 41: 773-782
Weissenborn R & Duka T (2003).Acute Alcohol Effects on Frontal Lobe Function in Social Drinkers: Their Relationship to Personality Traits and Drinking Habits. Psychopharmacology 165: 306-312
Field M & Duka T (2002) Cues paired with a low dose of alcohol acquire conditioned incentive properties in social drinkers. Psychopharmacology 159: 325-334
Duka T, Townshend JM, Collier K, Stephens, DN (2002). Kindling of withdrawal: a study of craving, and anxiety following multiple detoxifications in alcoholic inpatients. Alcoholism, Experimental and Clinical Research 36: 785-795