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Todd Gould

American psychiatrist and academic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ63378244 ↗
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Todd Denton Gould is an American psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He earned his MD from the University of Virginia, after which he completed a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health's Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology and Experimental Therapeutics. His research has shed light on the pharmacological mechanism by which ketamine-related drugs are able to treat depression in mice.

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This entry incorporates text from “Todd Gould” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.