Research Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
F.Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Dr. Hough is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1979. His first post-doctorate was in the Laboratory of Chemical Biology of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, studying the biosynthesis of neurophysin-vasopressin/oxytosin. After a short stint with Bethesda Research Laboratories, he began a second postdoctorate at Georgetown University Medical School to study the molecular biology of poly ADP-ribose. As a Research Assistant Professor at Georgetown, he assisted the Bone Marrow Transplantation Research Team at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda in 1984 in the discovery of hematopoietic growth factors and methods for their assay as well as in early work on neuroimmunology. In 1987 he joined the National Institute of Mental Health to study the molecular biology of neurotransmitter receptor expression and is now studying calcium and zinc homeostasis and NMDA receptor function as it relates to psychiatric illnesses.