Charles Marmar Lucius N. Littauer Professor & Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health Director of the NYU Langone Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD Charles R. Marmar, MD is Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, and Director of the NYU Langone Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD. Dr. Marmar’s major research interests are Posttraumatic stress disorder, peritraumatic dissociation, peritraumatic distress, Vietnam Veterans, police officers, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, risk factors, MRI, MRS, fMRI, acoustic startle, cortisol, HPA axis, catecholamines, neurogenetics, polysomnography, pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, ethnicity, bereavement, and death notification. He has conducted epidemiological, biomarkers, and treatment studies including clinical trials of pharmacological treatments for PTSD and studied MRI, fMRI, and MRS markers for dual diagnosis of AUD and PTSD. His research has led to breakthroughs in our understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the study of police officers, soldiers in combat, veterans, and civilians who have been exposed to sudden, usually life-threatening events. He is currently the PI on a NIH P01 center grant (Leveraging biomarkers for personalized treatment of alcohol use disorder comorbid with PTSD); Department of Defense grant (Fort Campbell Cohort Five Year Follow-up Study); NIH R21 grant (Cannabidiol as a treatment for alcohol use disorder comorbid with posttraumatic stress disorder); as well as a foundation grant (Cannabidiol for Treating PTSD Symptoms and Neurocognitive Impairment in PTSD and PTSD Comorbid with TBI: A Placebo-controlled RCT with Neural-circuit centered Precision Medicine Prediction of Response) and has over 200 peer reviewed publications. Participant In: Stress Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » A testament to its ubiquity, STRESS is woven into our very words, our thoughts and our emotions. We stress words to give them emphasis. We stress wood to make it stronger rather than splinter. And we feel distress, both when overwhelmed with dread, but also sometimes in joyous anticipation. The chase creates stress. Loss and failure create stress. Even… read more »
Stress Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » A testament to its ubiquity, STRESS is woven into our very words, our thoughts and our emotions. We stress words to give them emphasis. We stress wood to make it stronger rather than splinter. And we feel distress, both when overwhelmed with dread, but also sometimes in joyous anticipation. The chase creates stress. Loss and failure create stress. Even… read more »