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Danielle M. Dick, Ph.D.

About

Danielle M. Dick, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she serves as the inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center and holds the Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience. She is an internationally recognized and award-winning expert on genetic and environmental influences on human behavior. She has led and contributed to more than 20 grants from the National Institutes of Health, with grant funding totaling more than 30 million dollars. She has over 350 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of child development, addiction, mental health, genetics, and human behavior, and has won numerous national and international awards for her work. She has been named as one of the top 1.5 percent most highly cited researchers in the world across all fields of science. She is passionate about bringing research to the public in ways that are engaging and accessible; her first book The Child Code: Understanding your child’s unique nature for happier, more effective parenting is out now from Penguin Random House.

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Recent Posts
The Chaos of Raising Children

Do you find yourself asking why?! Why can’t I manage to keep up with the house, kids, and day-to-day that is life? See what researchers say.

Do you find yourself asking why?! Why can’t I manage to keep up with the house, kids, and day-to-day that is life? See what researchers say.

Strategies for Growing Your Child's Social Skills

Actionable steps you can take to develop your child’s social skills and strengthen their emotional intelligence.

Actionable steps you can take to develop your child’s social skills and strengthen their emotional intelligence.

How the Pandemic Has Affected Minority Youth Substance Use

COVID-19 led to increased substance use among some minority youth and decreased use in others. New research on predictors of substance use during the pandemic helps explain why.

COVID-19 led to increased substance use among some minority youth and decreased use in others. New research on predictors of substance use during the pandemic helps explain why.

5 Ways Children’s Genes Shape their Behavior

Why do kids do the amazing, crazy, ridiculous, frustrating, and adorable things that they do? The answer to that question can be found, partly, in their genes.

Why do kids do the amazing, crazy, ridiculous, frustrating, and adorable things that they do? The answer to that question can be found, partly, in their genes.

How to Improve Self-Control in Children

Feel like you're dealing with a child who just won’t listen? Introducing a self-control strategy that works.

Feel like you're dealing with a child who just won’t listen? Introducing a self-control strategy that works.

How to Curb Defiant Behavior in Children

Our default parenting response to stop misbehaving kids is usually ineffective. Here are science-backed strategies that really work.

Our default parenting response to stop misbehaving kids is usually ineffective. Here are science-backed strategies that really work.

What’s Your Child’s Unique Nature?

All children are wired differently. By understanding your child’s unique nature, you can figure out what parenting strategies will be most effective for your child.

All children are wired differently. By understanding your child’s unique nature, you can figure out what parenting strategies will be most effective for your child.

How to Navigate Differences of Opinion in Your Relationship

Do you and your partner have different ways of approaching things? Check out this three-step guide on how to bridge that divide.

Do you and your partner have different ways of approaching things? Check out this three-step guide on how to bridge that divide.

Planning a Day of Fun with Your Child that You Both Enjoy

Struggling to find activities that both you and your child enjoy? The root may be a mismatch of extraversion levels. Here are some ways to plan fun activities for you both.

Struggling to find activities that both you and your child enjoy? The root may be a mismatch of extraversion levels. Here are some ways to plan fun activities for you both.