Investigator Spotlight: Dr. Kerry Ressler
Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Supported Research
Genetic and Trauma-related Risk Factors for PTSD
ACTSI Support
News Selections
ABCNews.com | WABC-TV | US News & World Report | WebMD | Insider Medicine | HHMI | Science Daily | Vermont Public Radio | Researchers discover biological pathway linked to PTSD
February 23, 2011
Science Centric | United Press International | AOL Health | New biological pathway identified for post-traumatic stress disorder
February 24, 2011
Time.com Healthland | Why are women more vulnerable to PTSD than men?
Los Angeles Times | TopNewsSan Jose Mercury News | Star Global Tribune| Study suggests link between stress hormone and PTSD in women
February 25, 2011
PressTV | New genetic clues to PTSD found
February 26, 2011
Vermont Public Radio | Medscape | TopNews| Connection exists between hormone and PTSD
February 28, 2011
Emory Health Now |New Biological Pathway Identified for PTSD | Study: Stress hormone linked to PTSD found in women only
March 1, 2011
Medscape | Genes plus environment may predict PTSD
September 23, 2011
Dailyrx.com | PTSD risk genes and hormones
December 6, 2011
Publication Selections & Science Advances
- Biological Psychiatry | Fear extinction in traumatized civilians with posttraumatic stress disorder: relation to symptom severity
- Nature | Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1 receptor (more information to the right)
- Neuropharmacology | PTSD and gene variants: new pathways and new thinking
- Depression and Anxiety | Risk and resilience: genetic and environmental influences on development of the stress response