Gideon Naudé, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Gideon Naudé, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his doctorate in Behavioral Psychology at the University of Kansas with an emphasis on behavioral and neuroeconomic models of motivation and reward. His research interests broadly encompass the tradeoff between environmental costs (e.g., time, money, effort) and lifestyle choices that lead to chronic disease and mortality. Ongoing research is aimed at evaluating psilocybin as a therapeutic adjunct for substance use disorders and identifying to what degree baseline behavioral economic measures (e.g., persistent demand for a drug; temporal discounting) can predict psilocybin-assisted cessation outcomes.