Redford B. Williams

Correction to: 5-HTTLPR and Gender Moderate Changes in Negative Affect Responses to Tryptophan Infusion

Correction to: Effects of Environmental Stress and Gender on Associations among Symptoms of Depression and the Serotonin Transporter Gene Linked Polymorphic Region (5-HTTLPR)

Correction to: Low Life Course Socioeconomic Status (SES) Is Associated with Negative NEO PI-R Personality Patterns

Correction to: Sex and race differences of cerebrospinal fluid metabolites in healthy individuals

Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis of Dropout in a Controlled Exercise Intervention in Sedentary Adults With Overweight or Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease

Hostility and Health

It's Not the Genes OR the Environment, It's the Genes AND the Environment!

Redford B. Williams is a Duke behavioral-medicine leader whose work connected psychosocial factors such as hostility, social isolation, depression, and stress with cardiometabolic disease. He earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1963 and an M.D. from Yale in 1967, followed by Yale internal-medicine internship and residency from 1967 to 1970 and work at NIMH from 1970 to 1972. He joined Duke as an assistant professor in 1972, later becoming professor of psychiatry, director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center in 1985, and professor of psychology in 1990. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His research examines biobehavioral and genetic mechanisms and behavioral or pharmacologic approaches to reducing psychosocial health risks.

Relationship Between Psychosocial Stress and Blood Pressure: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study

Sex and race differences of cerebrospinal fluid metabolites in healthy individuals

Studied stress since taking a behavioral science class as a first-year student at Harvard University