Dr. Charles Raison: What Causes Depression? How and Why Heat Exposure Help with Depression.

Charles Raison, MD, is a Professor of Human Ecology and Psychiatry in the Departmentof Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Raison also serves as Director of Clinical and Translational Research for UsonaInstitute, as Director of the Vail Health Behavioral Health Innovation Center, Director of Research on Spiritual Health for Emory Healthcare and as Visiting Professor in theCenter for the Study of Human Health at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Raison’sresearch focuses on the examination of novel mechanisms involved in the developmentand treatment of major depression and other stress-related emotional and physicalconditions, as well as for his work examining the physical and behavioral effects ofcompassion training. More recently, Dr. Raison has taken a leadership role in thedevelopment of psychedelic medicines as potential treatments for major depression. He was named one of the world’s most influential researchers by Web of Science for the decade of 2010-2019. With Vladimir Maletic he is author of “The New Mind-BodyScience of Depression” published by W.W. Norton in 2017.Support the show