Duman, Ronald S.

Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D., Elizabeth Mears & House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of pharmacology, has received an NIMH Director’s Merit Award from the National Institute of Mental Health for his research on depression and stress. Duman studies the effects of stress on the hippocampus, and how antidepressant drugs stimulate neurotrophic and neurogenic actions in that structure.