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Dr. Charles Nemeroff, an expert on the biological basis of neuropsychiatric disorders, will give the 26th annual Ripley Lecture for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
He will speak on “ The HPA Axis and the Pathophysiology of Depression: The Role of Early Adverse Experience” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, in room T-625 of the Health Sciences Center. The lecture is open to everyone.
Nemeroff is Reunette Harris Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Nemeroff's research concentrates on biological pathology responsible for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and affective disorders. He has been investigating the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and the relationship between cortisol, a substance produced by the axis, and depression.
Nemeroff enrolled in a Ph.D. program in neurochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after graduating from City College of New York and earning a master's degree in biology at Northeastern University. After a year of postdoctoral training in neurochemistry, he entered medical school, still at the University of North Carolina. After residency training in psychiatry at Duke and UNC, he joined the Duke faculty. In 1991, he moved to Emory in Atlanta.
He has received numerous honors, including the Gold Medal Award from the Society of biological Psychiatry and the Research Prize from the American Psychiatric Association. In 1997, he received awards from both the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Disorders Association and the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Psychopharmacology, published by the American Psychiatric Association Press.
The annual lecture is named for the first chair of the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Herbert S. Ripley, who died in 1982, He chaired the department from 1949 to 1969. ¶
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April 30 1998