Rhodiola Rosea Phytomedicinal Overview References, Credits and Acknowledgments

This page provides the full credits and references to Rhodiola Rosea: A Phytomedicinal Overview. We start with brief biographies of each of the authors, and then below that you will find the 92 specific references cited throughout this seminal piece of research on R. rosea.

Please note that Dr. Brown and Dr. Gerbarg published The Rhodiola Revolution in 2005, which contains further exploration of these studies and hopeful effects.

Richard P. Brown, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He received his M.D. in 1977 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Brown completed his Residency in Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology at New York Hospital. Dr. Brown is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Mead-Johnson Neuropsychopharmacology Travel Fellowship, a Mallinckrodt Scholar award, and a Fellowship in Neurosciences and Brain Imaging from the Dana Foundation. He has had a longstanding interest in herbal and complementary medicine, especially as relevant to psychiatry. In 2000, he co-authored the book, Stop Depression Now, which presents a holistic approach to the treatment of depression, including SAM-e. Since 1999, Dr. Brown has taught a full day course on Herbs and Nutrients in Psychiatry at the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Brown has no financial interest in Rhodiola rosea.

Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at New York Medical Center. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 and completed her Psychiatry Residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1979. She finished psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1992 and has maintained a private psychiatric practice for 23 years. Dr. Gerbarg has taught and lectured on a range of topics in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Over the past eight years she has been increasingly involved in research and writing about alternative and complementary medicine in psychiatry and has co-authored numerous articles and book chapters with Dr. Brown. Dr. Gerbarg has no financial interest in Rhodiola rosea.

Zakir Ramazanov, Ph.D., D.S., was Professor of Biochemistry at Las Palmas Technological Institute, Spain. In 1978 he received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in biochemistry and plant physiology from North Caucasian State University and in 1981 a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He has served as Senior Scientist and Chief of the Department of Biotechnology at the Soviet Academy of Science and as Chairman of Algal Biotechnology Development. In 1991 he accepted a research fellowship at Louisiana State University. The recipient of numerous research grants, Dr. Ramazanov is known for his work in space biology, the cultivation of photosynthetic organisms in space stations, and the development of marine natural products from sea vegetables. He has published more than 140 scientific studies and co-authored two books: Arctic Root (Rhodiola rosea) — The powerful new Ginseng Alternative (1998) and Effective Natural Stress and Weight Management Using Rhodiola Rosea and Rhododendron Caucasicum (1999). Dr. Ramazanov was President and CEO of National Biosciences Corporation, Chester, NY. In 2001, Dr Ramazanov founded the site you’re reading right now, RhodiolaRosea.Org.

Acknowledgement: The authors are grateful to Dr. Bertalan Galambosi from Agrifood Research Finland, Ecological Production, of Mikkeli, Finland, for providing the photographs of Rhodiola rosea.

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