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The research program
The research program within the Psychiatry Division of the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center is strongly oriented toward disorders that affect the veterans population. Most prominent is research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, improving treatment of affective disorders, and mental health diseases associated with aging such as Alzheimer’s disease. Also included is mental health services research, which aims to improve methods of health care delivery for veterans.
Below are some of the members of the Psychiatry Research Program. For additional information the investigators in our Program and the studies being conducted, click on each investigator’s name.
Howard C. Becker, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Physiology and Neuroscience
Research Interest:
Neuropsychopharmacology of alcohol and other drugs of abuse; brain mechanisms underlying alcohol intoxication and neuroadaptive changes following chronic ethanol; pharmacotherpeutic treatments for alcohol dependence, withdrawal, and relapse.
e-mail:beckerh@musc.edu
phone: 843-792-5207
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Olga B. Brawman-Mintzer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Research to advance public knowledge of anxiety disorders as well as working to find new innovative pharmacological treatments for these disabling conditions.
e-mail: mintzero@musc.edu
phone: 843-740-1592
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Mark S. George, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Neurology
Research Interest:
New methods of minimally invasive brain stimulation that may lead to new neuropsychiatric treatments; neuroimaging; brain stimulation; depression; anxiety; neuropsychiatry.
e-mail: georgem@musc.edu
phone: 843-876-5142
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Mark B. Hamner, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interest:
PTSD; depression; anxiety disorders; schizophrenia.
e-mail: mark.hamner@va.gov
phone: 843-789-7799
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Kathy Laber, D.V.M.
Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine
Research Interest:
Animal model development in support of biomedical research.
e-mail: laberlk@musc.edu
phone: 843-876-5206
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Kathryn Magruder, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Mental health services research and clinical epidemiology, mental disorders in primary care, PTSD.
e-mail: magrudkm@musc.edu
phone: 843-789-7280
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Jacobo E. Mintzer, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Development of new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of cognitive and behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease
e-mail: mintzerj@musc.edu
phone: 843-740-1592 ext. 41
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Donald L. (Hugh) Myrick, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Substance abuse, neuroimaging.
e-mail: myrickh@musc.edu
phone: 843-740-1592
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M. Rita I. Young, Ph.D.
Associate Chief of Staff for Research
E-mail: rita.young@va.gov
Phone: (843) 789-6707; Fax: (478) 274-5761
Research Service
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
109 Bee Street
Charleston, SC 29401
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