Ronald Duman
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine
Key Impact
A leading neuroscientist whose work helped establish the rapid antidepressant mechanism of ketamine and shaped modern neurobiology of depression and PTSD.
Background & Research
Ronald S. Duman was a Yale neuroscientist and psychiatrist whose research focused on the molecular and cellular basis of stress, depression, and antidepressant response. He was a pioneer in identifying signaling pathways underlying ketamine’s rapid-acting antidepressant effects and held senior professorships at Yale School of Medicine. He died in 2020, but his work remains foundational in psychiatric and psychedelic-related research.
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