LABORATORY AND BRANCH RESEARCH REVIEWS 129Section on Aging, Laboratory of Psychology, NIMH, late 1950s (left to right: Eugene Streicher,
Joseph Brinley, Joel Garbus, James E. Birren, Jack Botwinick, unknown animal caretaker, and
Mrs. Oeast, secretary)
Donated to the Office of NIH History by Dr. Jack Botwinick
As a result, its research focused on: 1) behavioral and physiological
age-related changes in rats, such as in drive states, nervous tissue, and
learning rates; 2) age-related changes in intelligence test performance,
specifically with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale scores; 3) the rela
tionship of aging to higher cognitive processing; and 4) the research for
which the Section is most known, the 1963 book Human Aging that
resulted from a collaborative effort across three laboratories.^8
Haldor E. Rosvold, Ph.D.
Donated to the Office of NIH History
by Dr. Mortimer Mishkin