Gerard Sanacora, PhD, MD
Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Depression Research Program
Departments & Organizations
Psychiatry: Adult Psychiatry; Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit; Clinical Research Patient Care; Depression Research Program; Mood Disorders Research Program | Child Study Center: NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders | Internal Medicine: Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center | Yale Medical Group: YMG NC
Education
- Ph.D., SUNY at Stonybrook, 1992
- M.D., SUNY at Stonybrook, 1994
Selected Publications
- Banasr, M., Chowdhury, G.M.I., Twillenger, R., Newton S., Duman, R.S., Behar K., Sanacora, G. Stress-induced glial pathology and depressive-behaviors are prevented by riluzole. Molecular Psychiatry. Mol Psychiatry. 2010 May;15(5):501-11.
- Valentine GW, Sanacora G. Targeting glial physiology and glutamate cycling in the treatment of depression. Biochem Pharmacol. 2009 Apr 17.
- Sanacora, G., Zarate, C. Krystal, J. Manji, H. Targeting the glutamatergic system to develop novel, improved therapeutics for mood disorders. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 2008, 7(5):426-37
