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Richard Lane, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard D. Lane is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He received his B.A. in Psychology (magna cum laude) from Yale University, his M.D. from the University of Illinois in Chicago, did his psychiatric residency and a research fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine and received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (with special emphasis in cognitive neuroscience) at the University of Arizona. He has been at the University of Arizona since 1990 and rose to the rank of Professor in 2000.
In 2005-2006 Dr. Lane served as President of the American Psychosomatic Society and has been a leader in “bringing the brain into mind-body medicine.” In 2007 he received the Mani Bhaumik award from the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, an international research award “for advancing the understanding of the brain and the conscious mind in healing through visionary research, books and education." He was Guest Editior of a Special Issue of the journal Neuroimage on Brain-Body Medicine published in September 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychosomatic Medicine (the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society), the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He was senior editor of a book titled Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion published in 2000 by Oxford University Press. He has been the recipient of a K award from NIMH and RO1 grants from NIMH and NHLBI to study brain mechanisms of emotion and the effect of emotions on arrhythmias and sudden death. He served as a regular member of the “Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Emotion, Stress and Health” NIH study section. He has been an invited participant in strategic planning for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR), both at NIH. As a specialist in consultation-liaison psychiatry, he is a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, elected Member of the American College of Psychiatrists, elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and is listed among the Best Doctors in America.
Dr. Lane’s core academic interest is in understanding the mechanisms by which emotion contributes to the progression of physical disease. Toward this end he works in three inter-related research areas. The first area is a cognitive-developmental model of individual differences in emotional experience and expression. He has developed the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale and has actively pursued research on the behavioral, neuroanatomical and clinical correlates of emotional awareness. The second is the neural substrates of emotion, emotion regulation and emotion dysregulation (such as depression) using PET and fMRI. The third area is the mechanisms by which emotion can trigger sudden cardiac death. The latter work has focused on emotions as triggers of cardiac events and a neurophsyiological model of lateralized central-autonomic interactions.
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