J. Douglas Bremner, MD

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D. is Director of the Emory Center for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). He completed his Psychiatry and Nuclear Medicine residencies at Yale School of Medicine. He was a VA Biological Psychiatry Fellow and VA Career Development Awardee for Level I and Level II. He was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of the Yale Trauma Research Program.

Dr. Bremner's current research includes a study of the effects of treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and phenytoin on hippocampal atrophy in PTSD. Other projects in PTSD related to abuse and combat used a variety of symptom inducing tasks to demonstrate decreased function in hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex, and decreased benzodiazepine receptor binding in frontal cortex.

Dr. Bremner has authored or co-authored over 100 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 Neurological Perspective published by W.W. Norton & Co. (2002).