Douglas Bremner

Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Emory University School of Medicine, United States of America

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and Director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VAMC in Decatur, Georgia. Dr. Bremner moved to Emory from Yale in November of 2000 where he spent the first 12 years of his career.

Dr Bremner’s research has used neuroimaging and neurobiology measures to study the neural correlates and neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to combat and childhood abuse, as well as the related area of depression. His more recent work is expanding to look at the relationship between brain, behavior, and physical health including studies of heart disease and the brain, and acne and the brain. Dr Bremner has worked with the support of funding from two successive VA Career Development Awards, VA Merit Review, NIMH, DOD, and various private sources. His research included studies of the neurobiology and assessment of PTSD, hippocampus and memory in PTSD and depression, neural correlates of declarative memory and traumatic remembrance in PTSD, PET measurement of neuroreceptor binding in mood and anxiety disorders, neural correlates of myocardial ischemia, and the effects of psychotropic and acne medication on brain function and structure.

Dr Bremner has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and written or edited three books, most recently Does Stress Damage the Brain? Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders from a Mind-Body Perspective published by W.W. Norton & Co. (2002). He is on the editorial boards of several journals and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. He has received several awards for his work, including the Chaim Danieli Award for Research and Service in Traumatic Stress from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Psychiatry > Anxiety Disorders (since 14 November 2005)

Links

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  Toward higher-performance health systems: adults' health care experiences in seven countries, 2007.
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  Market-based failure - a second opinion on U.S. health care costs.
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  Aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in women and men: a sex-specific meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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  Chronic administration of 13-cis-retinoic acid increases depression-related behavior in mice.
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  Exercise as an augmentation strategy for treatment of major depression.
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  Testing the hypothesis that locus coeruleus hyperactivity produces depression-related changes via galanin.
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