Gallant, Don
Biographical Sketch: (Pictured second from the right) Dr. Don Gallant, Professor Emeritus Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: 01-May (part 1, part 2) Interviewer: T.Ban Transcript: Papers:
Fuxe, Kjell
Biographical Sketch: Kjell Fuxe, M.D., is a Professor of the Division of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1964, K. Fuxe and A. Dahlström were the first to provide evidence for the existence of catecholamine and serotonin-containing neurons and described their specific localization in the central nervous system by implementing, […]
Friedhoff, Arnold
Biographical Sketch: Arnold J. Friedhoff, a leader in the development of a scientific, biologically based psychiatry, died on February 21, 2001, at the age of 77 years. For almost 50 years he worked tirelessly to make psychiatry into an applied neuroscience. This was done not only in his laboratory but through individuals he trained and […]
Freedman, Alfred
Biographical Sketch: A graduate of Cornell University, Alfred M. Freedman received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1942 and his postgraduate education at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychoanalysis. From 1950 to 1960 he held faculty appointments in psychiatry at New York University College of Medicine and the State University […]
Frank, Ellen
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Ellen Frank is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of the Depression and Manic Depression Prevention Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. She graduated from Vassar College in 1966 and received a masters’ degree in English from Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. […]
Fish, Barbara
Biographical Sketch: Topical Index: I. Childhood, Education, and Residency: the Ethical Culture School; early love of science; college; summer camp; NYU medical school; mentors; experiences as a resident in adult psychiatry. II. Child Psychiatry and Starting the Longitudinal Infant Study: experiences as a resident in child psychiatry; Bender’s ideas about development; psychoanalytic training at the […]
Fink, Max
Biographical Sketch: Max Fink studied medicine at New York University College of Medicine, qualifying in 1945. He spent two years as an army medical officer. He was trained at Montefiore, Bellevue and Hillside Hospitals, each in New York. By 1954 he was board certified in psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. Fink was appointed research professor of […]
Fibiger, Hans Christian
Biographical Sketch: Fibiger earned his BSc at the University of Victoria, BC, in 1966, and his PhD at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1970. He came to the UBC in 1972, where he conducted research into the causes of “anhedonia”, or depression. His work shows that a complex of neurons in the midbrain contains the neurotransmitter […]
Feinberg, Irwin
Biographical Sketch: Irwin Feinberg received his M.S. from Brooklyn College, M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Swarthmore College, and his M.D. from New York University. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Dec-97 Interviewer: L.Hollister Transcript: Papers:
Fawcett, Jan
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Fawcett has always maintained an active clinical practice focusing on patients with treatment resistant major affective disorders and continues to do so in his work as a Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Jan Fawcett, a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, joined […]