J. Douglas Bremner

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology and Director of the Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (ECNRU) at Emory University School of Medicine and a Staff Psychiatrist at the Atlanta VAMC in Atlanta, GA. He received a bachelor’s degree in literature at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, attended medical school at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and residencies in Psychiatry (1991) and Nuclear Medicine (1997) at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Bremner’s research, supported by the VA and NIH, studies neural correlates and neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to combat and childhood abuse, as well as the related area of depression. His more recent work is expanding to look at the relationship between brain, behavior, and physical health including studies of heart disease and the brain. He has authored or co-authored over 400 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and written or edited eight books, including "Does Stress Damage the Brain" and "Before You Take That Pill" and most recently "Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age" with his sister who is a lawyer.