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Richard Lane, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience
Richard D. Lane is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, his M.D. from the University of Illinois and did his psychiatric residency and a research fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. His clinical specialization is in consultation-liaison psychiatry. He received a 5-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study how the brain is activated during emotional states in healthy volunteers. Upon completion of this 5-year grant in 1999 he received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (with special emphasis in cognitive neuroscience) from the University of Arizona. He is senior editor of Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion published in 2000 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Lane has been a member of the Council and is now Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychosomatic Society. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychosomatic Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and is an elected member of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Lane’s core academic interest is in understanding the mechanisms by which emotional stress can affect physical disease. He has chosen to work in three separate areas of research that can each stand on their own with the hope that they may eventually be bridged. The first area is individual differences in emotional experience and expression. He has developed the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale and has actively pursued research in alexithymia. The second area is functional neuroanatomy of emotion and emotional experience. He has performed PET and more recently fMRI studies in this area. The third area is the neurogenic mechanisms by which emotion can trigger sudden cardiac death. The latter work has focused on a model of central-autonomic interactions and has recently involved a focus on patients at genetic risk for sudden death due to the Long QT Syndrome. His research on emotion is currently funded by RO1 grants from NIMH and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, in addition to funding of fMRI studies by the Fetzer Institute and the Dana Foundation.
Dr. Lane also serves as Course Coordinator for the PGY-3 and 4 seminar series, Functional Neuroanatomy of Psychiatric Disorders.
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