East Carolina University
 
Department of Psychology
C. Ervin Davis, Ph.D.


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Faculty Information

C. Ervin Davis III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

East Carolina University
Department of Psychology

Rawl Building Room 104

Greenville
, North Carolina 27858-4353

phone 252-328-6308

fax 252-328-6283
daviscL@ecu.edu

Joint Appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at ECU Brody School of Medicine

Research & Clinical Interests

Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychophysiology (especially fMRI and EEG) of cognitive- and emotion-related brain activity, neural mechanisms of emotion and pain, brain function in decision makin
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Psychotherapy, Neuropsychology, Geriatric Mental Health, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Chronic Pain,  Biofeedback.


As core clinical behavioral medicine faculty in the health psychology Ph.D. program, I am recruiting Ph.D. program applicants with related research and clinical interests.


Education and Academic Background

 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 2003,  University of Kentucky


 M.S. Clinical Psychology, 1996, Georgia Southern University


 M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1986, Georgia Institute of Technology


 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1984, Georgia Institute of Technology


 Clinical Psychology Internship, 2002-2003, University of Mississippi Medical Center and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Jackson, Mississippi.


 NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003-2005, University of California San Diego and San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center





Current Research

Brain mechanisms of pain processing, chronic pain, and emotion

Real-world complex decision making

Physiological and brain function in worry 


Teaching

  • Graduate Cognitive Assessment
  • Graduate Systems of Psychotherapy
  • Graduate Clinical Psychology Practicum
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Personality
  • Abnormal Psychology

Selected Publications

 

Davis, C. E., Carlson, C. R., Studts, J. L, Curran, S. L., Hoyle, R. H., Sherman, T. J, & Okeson, J. P. (2010). Use of a structural equation model for prediction of pain symptoms in patients with orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders. Journal of Orofacial Pain, 24, 89-100.


Sy Atezaz Saeed, Diana J. Antonacci, Richard M. Bloch, C. Ervin Davis III, Crystal Manuel (2009). CAM for your depressed patient: 6 recommended options. Current Psychiatry, 8, 39-47. (Feature Article)


Davis, E., Barnhill, L. J., & Saeed, S. A. (2008). Treatment models for treating patients with combined mental illness and developmental disability. Psychiatric Quarterly, 79, 205-223.


de Leeuw, R., Davis, C. E., Albuquerque, R., Carlson, C. R., & Andersen, A. H. (2006). Brain activity during stimulation of the trigeminal nerve with noxious heat. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Path Oral Radiol Endod, 102, 750-757.


Blonder, L.X., Smith, C. D., Davis, C. E., Kesler/West, M. L., Garrity, T. F., Avison, M . J., & Andersen, A. H. (2004). Regional brain response to faces of dogs and humans. Cognitive Brain Research, 20, 384-394.

 

Davis, C. E., Jeste, D. V., & Eyler, L. T. (2005). Review of Longitudinal Neuroimaging Studies of Drug Treatments in Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research,78(1), 45-60.

 

Mittal, D., Davis, C. E., Depp, C., Pyne, J. M., Golshan, S., Patterson, T. & Jeste, D. V. (2006). Predictors of Health Related Quality of Well Being in Middle Aged and Older Patients with Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194(5), 335-340.

 

Depp, C. A., Davis, C. E., Mittal, D., Patterson, T. L., Jeste, D.V. (2006). The Health-Related Quality of Life and Functioning of Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults with Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67(2), 215-221.



Recent Presentations and Published Abstracts

Lim, P. F., Davis, C. E., & Stanley, W. D. (2010). Worry in patients with chronic orofacial pains. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain, Orlando, FL, April-May 2010.

Davis, C. E., Hauf, J. D., & Hardy, A. H. Physiological responses to emotion-producing pictures related to worry and anxiety. Proceedings for the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of The Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA, 2008.


Alan L. Gerding, D. Erik Everhart & Claude E. Davis. Patterns of P300 laterality observed during the presentation of emotional prosodic utterances and emotional prosodic words. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Savannah, GA, 2007.


Davis, C. E., Simonsen, D. R., Hauf, J. D., & Everhart, D. E. (2010). Worry-Related EEG Differences in Emotion Processing. Presented at 2010 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Chattanooga, TN.


Hauf, J. D., Davis, C. E., Everhart, D. E., & Row, K. R. (2010). Physiological Responses to Painful Electrodermal Stimulation and Relationship to Anxiety. Presented at 2010 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Chattanooga, TN.


Davis, C. E., Hauf, J. D. , & Everhart, D. E. (2009). Brain Function With Complex Decision Making in Healthy Participants Using Electroencephalography. AHEC 2009 Inaugural health Psychology Symposium, Greenville, North Carolina.


Davis, C. E., Hauf, J. D. , & Everhart, D. E. (2009, April). Brain Function With Worry and Emotion Processing in Healthy Participants Using Electroencephalography.   AHEC 2009 Inaugural Health Psychology Symposium, Greenville, North Carolina.