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Richard Lane, MD, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry
Professor, Neuroscience
Professor, Psychology

1230 N Cherry Ave
Building: Bioscience Research Labs (#242)
Room #: 332

(520) 626-3272
lane@arizona.edu

Student Opportunities Through Research

Research involves state of the art brain imaging during emotion, testing a novel hypothesis about how the brain triggers ventricular fibrillation and sudden death, and evaluating deficits in the expression of emotion that may contribute to somatization.
 

Sponsored Research Through MSRP

Teresa Mayer-Teaford, (MSRP 1993): "Similarities and differences between fatigue and depression."
 
David Buckner, (MSRP 1994): "Gender differences in levels of emotional awareness."
 

Advanced Research Distinction Track (RDT)

Jennifer Bao, (RDT Class of 2018): "Resting state functional connectivity correlates of emotional awareness"

Degrees

  • University of Illinois, 1978 (M.D.)
  • Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, 1979-1982 (Internship and Residency)
  • Yale University School of Public Health, Training Program in Mental Health Epidemiology, 1983-1985

Research Interests

Richard D. Lane, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and serves as Associate Director of the GCRC. He is a clinical psychiatrist with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology. He is on the editorial board of Psychosomatic Medicine and is Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychosomatic Society. His research is currently funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Dana Foundation and the Fetzer Institute.

His research interests include: the functional neuroanatomy of emotion, emotional experience and emotion regulation; The physiological mechanisms by which emotions trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias; The psychology and psychophysiology of individual differences in emotional experience and expression.