Richelson, Elliott
Biographical Sketch: Elliott Richelson received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Oct-01 Interviewer: T.Ban Transcript: Papers:
Reisberg, Barry
Biographical Sketch: Barry Reisberg serves as Professor of Psychiatry at NYU. He was the first to describe many of the most important symptoms of AD and the characteristic clinical course of the disease. His staging tools are presently governmentally mandated measures throughout the U.S., in some Canadian and European provinces, and recommended in Japan. Dr. […]
Raskin, Allen
Biographical Sketch: Allen Raskin, Ph.D., is a research professor in the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Apr-97 Interviewer: L.Hollister Transcript: Papers:
Rapoport, Judith
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Judith Rapoport is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Rapoport’s laboratory investigates the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children, including Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Rapoport received her […]
Racagni, Giorgio
Biographical Sketch: Giorgio Racagni,Ph.D, Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, University of Milan in Milan, Italy. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Dec-00 Interviewer: Transcript: Papers:
Quitkin, Frederic
Biographical Sketch: In collaboration with colleagues, Frederic Quitkin’s clinical research delineated the specific syndrome of atypical depression, now accepted by the official diagnostic nomenclature. These studies showed for the first time that rational selection of an antidepressant medication was possible based on clinical features. After graduating from Princeton University and the State University of New […]
Primm, Benny
Primm, Benny Biographical Sketch: In 1969, he helped found Brooklyn’s Addiction Research Treatment Corporation (ARTC), now one of the nation’s largest minority community-based substance-abuse treatment programs. As the executive director, Primm pioneered efforts in the 1980s to create HIV and AIDS education, prevention and care efforts for his hard-hit injecting-drug-using clients, including such controversial issues […]
Prange, Art
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Prange’s professional activities outside the department include serving as a referee and sub-editor for psychiatric journals. Arthur J. Prange, Jr., M.D, after 44 years as an active member of the department, Dr. Prange retired from full-time activity in February 1998. At the present time, he devotes about half of his time to […]
Potter, William
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Potter was one of the early architects of the Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), and he continues as former chair and active participant on the Industry Strategic Advisory Board. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Translational Neuroscience at Merck Research Laboratories, prior to which he was head of early CNS […]
Post, Robert
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Post graduated from Yale University in 1964, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1968, was a medical intern at the Einstein School of Medicine in 1969, and psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital for one year before joining the NIMH in 1970 and finishing his residency there and at George […]