194 COHEN
anniversary of the opening of the Clinical Center. The plans for this meeting
were quietly cancelled, but the ten achievements of the NIMH’s clinical
research program’s first decade of research, plus several more of equal
merit, were as follows:
the discovery of catechol-o-methyl transferase and the elucida
tion of the processes involved in the neurotransmitter role of
the catecholamines
(Julius Axelrod; this led to his Nobel Prize in 1970)^17
family studies and communication deviance in schizophrenia
(Lyman Wynne and Margaret Thaler Singer)
social variables and the development of schizophrenia
(Melvin Kohn)
the impact of mental illness on the family
(John Clausen and Marian Yarrow)
hormones and depression
(David A. Hamburg, John Mason, William Bunney)
a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the factors
involved in human aging
(James E. Birren, Robert N. Butler, Samuel Greenhouse,
Louis Sokoloff, and Marian Yarrow)
the functional anatomy of the visceral brain
(Paul MacLean)
the biochemical lesion in phenylpyruvic oligophrenia
(Seymour Kaufman)
genetic factors in the development of schizophrenia
(David Rosenthal, Seymour S. Kety, and Paul Wender)
the organization of the Clinical Neuropharmacological
Research Center
(Joel Elkes)