Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Behavioral Medicine

Address:
DUMC 3889
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-416-3439

Office Telephone:
919-416-3439

Fax Telephone:
919-681-7506

• MD, Andhra University (India), 1976

• Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, 1985-1989

• Psychosomatic Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1989-1990

Clinical Interests:
Chronic pain, consultation and liaison, depression, anxiety disorders, organic mental disorders, schizophrenia

Research Interests:
Relationship between dopamine and nicotine receptors.

Schizophrenia - attention and memory

AIDS dementia and drug abuse.

Representative Publications:
Swanson C., Frendenrich C., McEvoy J., Nelson L., Kamaraju L.S., Wilson W.H. Insight in schizophrenia and mania. J. Nervous & Mental Diseases. 183:752-755, 1995. (1995)

Sundar K.S., Kamaraju L.S., Singfelder J., McMahon J., Gollapudi S., Wilson W.H., Kong L-Y., Hong J., Weiss J.M. Beta endorphin enhances the replication of neurotropic human immunodeficiency virus in fetal perivascular microglia. J. Neuroimmunol. 61:97-104, 1995. (1995)

Sundar K.S., Kamaraju L.S., McMahan J., Bitonte R., Wilson W.H., Kong L-Y, Hong J., Lee J.E. Endogenous opioids and HIV infection. IN: AIDS, drugs of abuse and the neuroimmune axis. (eds) Friedman H., Eisenstein T., Madden J., Sharp B. Plenum Press.. NY (In press)