Arnold J. Mandell
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Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist. He received his M.D. from Tulane Universiry in 1958. Founding chairman in 1969 of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego
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he was, at the time of his appointment, the youngest physician ever appointed as a chairman of a medical school psychiatry program in the U.S. An early biological psychiatrist, the department was the first in the U.S. to be biologically oriented. After leaving UCSD, he has been involved in studying the basic science and applied mathematics of brain activity and behavior.
He is the Director of Research of the Cielo Institute., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Emory University
., a Research Professor of Health and Wellness at University of North Carolina, Asheville, Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, La Jolla, Visiting Scientist at the Core MEG Lab at NIH, and a Senior Research Associate at Scripps Research Institute.
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
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he was, at the time of his appointment, the youngest physician ever appointed as a chairman of a medical school psychiatry program in the U.S. An early biological psychiatrist, the department was the first in the U.S. to be biologically oriented. After leaving UCSD, he has been involved in studying the basic science and applied mathematics of brain activity and behavior.
He is the Director of Research of the Cielo Institute., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
., a Research Professor of Health and Wellness at University of North Carolina, Asheville, Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, La Jolla, Visiting Scientist at the Core MEG Lab at NIH, and a Senior Research Associate at Scripps Research Institute.
Awards
- 1984 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacArthur Fellows ProgramThe MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
- A.E. Bennett Research Prize of the Society for Biological Psychiatry
- 1994 Senior Humboldt Prize Fellowship in Dynamical Systems, Bremen University
- Foundations Fund Research Prize of the American Psychiatric AssociationAmerican Psychiatric AssociationThe American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
- Johananoff International Prize Fellow in Psychopharmacology (Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy).
Works
- "The Nightmare Season"
- "Coming of Middle Age: A Journey"
- "Perspectives in biological dynamics and theoretical medicine"
- "New Concepts in Neurotransmitter Regulation"
- "Psychochemical Research in Man: Methods, Strategy, and Theory"
- "The Nearness of Grace"
- "Psychoanalysis and Psychopharmachology", Modern psychoanalysis: new directions & perspectives, Editor Judd Marmor, Transaction Publishers, 1995, ISBN 9781560008255