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Ronald S. Duman

Ronald S. Duman

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Neuroscience

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157
Citations
103827
World Ranking
123
National Ranking
84

Medicine

D-Index
157
Citations
103830
World Ranking
879
National Ranking
500

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Ronald S. Duman was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as biological psychiatry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work covered several main topics including tryptophan and brain disorders, treatment of major depression, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, stress responses and cortisol, receptor mechanisms and signaling, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior.

Among their recent papers were:

  • Prefrontal cortex circuits in depression and anxiety: contribution of discrete neuronal populations and target regions (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Impairments of Neuroplasticity and Cellular Resilience in Severe Mood Disorders: Implications for the Development of Novel Therapeutics (2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin)
  • Genome-wide association analyses of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptom subdomains in the Million Veteran Program (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Ketamine disinhibits dendrites and enhances calcium signals in prefrontal dendritic spines (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder (2020, Nature Neuroscience)

Frequent coauthors included John H. Krystal, Matthew J. Girgenti, Santosh Pothula, Hongyu Zhao, and Christopher Pittenger. These collaborations indicate sustained partnerships in topics related to psychiatry and neuroscience.

The scholar published repeatedly in key venues such as Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuropsychopharmacology, and Nature Communications, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research within psychiatry and neuroscience.

Ronald S. Duman received recognition including membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2015. This accolade marked a notable point in their career within the medical and scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Requirement of Hippocampal Neurogenesis for the Behavioral Effects of Antidepressants

    Luca Santarelli;Michael Saxe;Cornelius Gross;Alexandre Surget

  • A neurotrophic model for stress-related mood disorders.

    Ronald S. Duman;Lisa M. Monteggia

  • Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Increases Neurogenesis in Adult Rat Hippocampus

    Jessica E. Malberg;Amelia J. Eisch;Eric J. Nestler;Ronald S. Duman

  • mTOR-Dependent Synapse Formation Underlies the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of NMDA Antagonists

    Nanxin Li;Boyoung Lee;Rongjian Liu;Mounira Banasr

  • A molecular and cellular theory of depression

    Ronald S. Duman;George R. Heninger;Eric J. Nestler

  • Regulation of BDNF and trkB mRNA in Rat Brain by Chronic Electroconvulsive Seizure and Antidepressant Drug Treatments

    Masashi Nibuya;Shigeru Morinobu;Ronald S. Duman

  • Stress, Depression, and Neuroplasticity: A Convergence of Mechanisms

    Christopher Pittenger;Ronald S Duman

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Produces Antidepressant Effects in Behavioral Models of Depression

    Yukihiko Shirayama;Andrew C.-H. Chen;Shin Nakagawa;David S. Russell

  • Synaptic plasticity and depression: new insights from stress and rapid-acting antidepressants

    Ronald S Duman;George K Aghajanian;Gerard Sanacora;John H Krystal

  • Synaptic Dysfunction in Depression: Potential Therapeutic Targets

    Ronald S. Duman;George K. Aghajanian

  • The many faces of CREB

    William A. Carlezon;Ronald S. Duman;Eric J. Nestler

  • CHRONIC ANTIDEPRESSANT ADMINISTRATION INCREASES THE EXPRESSION OF CAMP RESPONSE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN (CREB) IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS

    M Nibuya;EJ Nestler;RS Duman

  • Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor, depression, and antidepressant medications: meta-analyses and implications.

    Srijan Sen;Ronald Duman;Gerard Sanacora

  • Glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists rapidly reverse behavioral and synaptic deficits caused by chronic stress exposure.

    Nanxin Li;Rong-Jian Liu;Jason M. Dwyer;Mounira Banasr

  • Hippocampal neurogenesis: opposing effects of stress and antidepressant treatment.

    Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt;Ronald S. Duman

  • Cell Proliferation in Adult Hippocampus is Decreased by Inescapable Stress: Reversal by Fluoxetine Treatment

    Jessica E Malberg;Ronald S Duman

  • IL-1β is an essential mediator of the antineurogenic and anhedonic effects of stress

    Ja Wook Koo;Ronald S. Duman

  • Regulation of Cocaine Reward by CREB

    William A. Carlezon;Johannes Thome;Valerie G. Olson;Sarah B. Lane-Ladd

  • Neuronal plasticity and survival in mood disorders

    Ronald S Duman;Jessica Malberg;Shin Nakagawa;Carrol D’Sa

  • Altered connectivity in depression: GABA and glutamate neurotransmitter deficits and reversal by novel treatments

    Ronald S. Duman;Gerard Sanacora;John H. Krystal

  • Neural plasticity to stress and antidepressant treatment.

    Ronald S Duman;Jessica Malberg;Johannes Thome

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Samuel S. Newton
Samuel S. Newton University of South Dakota
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal Yale University
Gerard Sanacora
Gerard Sanacora Yale University
Xiaoyuan Li
Xiaoyuan Li Yale University
George K. Aghajanian
George K. Aghajanian Yale University
Vidita A. Vaidya
Vidita A. Vaidya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Christopher Pittenger
Christopher Pittenger Yale University
Ralph J. DiLeone
Ralph J. DiLeone Yale University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University

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