Kerry Ressler, Principal Investigator

Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
After completing his B.S. in molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Ressler received his
M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard School of Medicine and its Department of Neurobiology in Boston, Massachusetts.
While completing his residency in Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine, he worked as a research fellow
with Dr. Michael Davis at Emory, studying behavioral neuroscience. Dr. Ressler's lab at Yerkes Research Center is
focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of fear learning and the process of extinction of fear in mouse
models. He hopes that by understanding how fear works in the brain, it will improve our understanding of and advance treatments for fear-based disorders, such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder. During his clinical time, Dr. Ressler is co-director with Dr. Ann Schwartz of the newly created Post-traumatic Stress Disorders Clinic at the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital.

BIG NEWS!!!!!

Kerry was recently nominated as an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute