PREFACE xixPart II of this volume presents succinct reviews of the research con
ducted by the fifteen laboratories and branches of the NIMH and the
NINDB intramural basic and clinical research programs. These reviews
include available photographs of 1950s scientists and the names of the
laboratory, branch, and section chiefs. A list of all of the laboratory
and branch members identified can be found in the appendices.
Following this historical background, Part III provides twelve varied
recollections of scientists and administrators who were at the two insti
tutes during the 1950s. The current director and former scientific direc
tor of the NINDB also offers her view of how that original 1950s research
has changed over the course of time.
The volume has four appendices. Appendix A is an organizational chart
of both institutes, highlighting the joint basic research program of the
institutes and the individual clinical programs. Appendix B presents lists
of all of the members of each laboratory and branch at the NIMH and
the NINDB during the 1950s. Appendix C provides citations of land
mark papers published by some of the laboratories and branches (when
ever they were provided by individual scientists) resulting from the
1950s research (up to a 1965 publication date). Appendix D provides a
list of selected primary and secondary sources related to the history of
both of these institutes.
The editors would like to acknowledge a number of individuals and
organizations whose assistance made this book possible. The initial idea
for this book emerged from a symposium on research at the NIMH and
the NINDB in the 1950s that was co-sponsored by the NIMH, the
NINDS, and the Office of NIH History. The two institutes’ generous
financial support of the symposium, the production of this volume,
and the Editor-in-Chief ’s DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellowship
was indispensable. The symposium’s Scientific Advisory Committee,
consisting of Drs. Mortimer Mishkin, Roscoe O. Brady, and Allan F.
Mirsky, was invaluable in assisting us in locating many of the 1950s
scientists and shaping the symposium’s program.
Drs. Mishkin, Brady, Robert A. Cohen, Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan,
Philip G. Nelson, S. Harvey Mudd, and Richard A. Littman were most
generous with their time and expertise in commenting on drafts of the