Mark Gold, MD
Scholar, Distinguished Professor, Inventor, Pioneering Researcher – Dr. Mark S. Gold’s expansive career in translational neuroscience began in 1972. Since then, he has become a world-renowned expert on addiction-related diseases and has worked for 40+ years developing models for understanding the effects of opioid, tobacco, cocaine, and other drugs, as well as food, on the brain and behavior.
Dr. Gold has more than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications since beginning his academic career at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine, and is best known for developing the pioneering translational laboratory to human research methods of discovery for addiction and psychiatry. He has over 30,000 academic research citations and an H index of 93, and continues to make impactful contributions to neuroendocrinology, radiation oncology, transplant biology, orthopedic surgery, public health, pain, psychiatry, obesity medicine, and substance use disorders. He is the 13th most impactful researcher in addiction medicine and psychiatry in the world.
Today, Dr. Gold continues his research, teaching, and consulting as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis.
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Mark S. Gold, MD, is a world-renowned expert on addiction-related diseases and prolific author of research, books, articles, and more publications on understanding the effects of opioid, tobacco, cocaine, and other drugs, as well as food, on the brain and behavior.
Psilocybin: Potential Psychedelic Treatment for Depression
"Magic" mushroomsKEY POINTS Clinical studies have shown psilocybin from “magic mushrooms” improves depression. Psychiatric researchers at Harvard, Yale, Washington University, Stanford and more are studying psychedelics. The FDA may legalize psilocybin for depression,...
Naltrexone for Both Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders
Naltrexone may be a wonder drug but getting patients to take it is a challenge.KEY POINTS Naltrexone, like its cousin naloxone (Narcan), is a wonder drug but getting patients to take it is not easy. Lack of treatment adherence may be genetic, but women and men also...
The Fentanyl Death Crisis in America
Medication for reversing overdose is life-saving—if used quickly and correctly.KEY POINTS Fentanyl is a major threat causing overdose deaths in the United States. Young people are unknowingly taking fentanyl and dying. Fentanyl smoking is contributing to overdose and...