Doug Bremner is a physician, professor, researcher, writer and filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. He is a professor of psychiatry and radiology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, Director of the Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (ECNRU) and a Staff Physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center where he treats veterans with psychiatric disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He has written over 400 publications based on his research on PTSD, depression, addictions, mechanisms of stress and heart disease and vagus nerve stimulation. He is the most highly cited researcher on PTSD in the world (tied with the late Naomi Breslau). He is the co-founder and CEO of Laughing Cow Productions and writer/director/producer of the independent feature films Inheritance, Italian Style and The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg. He was the Editor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: From Neurobiology to Treatment, and has written numerous books including The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, You Can’t Just Snap Out of It: The Real Path to Recovery From Psychological Trauma, Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad For Your Health, Does Stress Damage the Brain? and Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age, written with his sister, who is a lawyer, Anne Bremner. His most recent books are Pimps, Whores, and Chiggers: The Corrupting Influence of Big Pharma, and Pills, Shills, and the Psychiatry Wars.
