Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior

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I remained at the Boston City Hospital and on the Harvard Univers­
ity Medical School faculty until Denny-Brown retired in 1967. A year
later, I went to Columbia University, where Richard L. Masland, direc­
tor of the NINDB after Pearce Bailey, became department chair. In 1977,
I went to the University of Michigan as chairman of the Department of
Neurology and have been there ever since. I have been fortunate to
receive continuous training and research funding from the NIH and, in
turn, I have served on multiple study sections and as a member of the
NINDS Advisory Council.
It seems odd at first glance, but I have maintained closer ties with the
NIH than I have with my alma mater for my undergraduate education,
medical school and internship, UCLA, and other medical schools–Har­
vard and Columbia University–where I have been a faculty member. I have
been a department chair at the University of Michigan for 25 years now
and have very close ties with this institution, but when the NIH comes
calling and asks me to perform a task, I will do it if I possibly can. I owe
such a debt of gratitude to the NIH. I had a wonderful two years on the
campus and I have had marvelous interactions with the administrators
and the intramural and extramural scientists whom I have met in various
contexts. So thank you, NIH; it has been a wonderful run.

Notes

1. I want to thank Dr. Ingrid G. Farreras for her help, and also Drs. Mortimer
   Mishkin and Allan F. Mirsky for finding the name of Stefan Figar for me.


2. Today the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).


3. Bauman later went into industry. Huttenlocher became a pediatric neurologist
   who spent many years at the University of Chicago. Cohen dropped out of
   the program during the first year. Smiley became an arthritis specialist at the
   University of Texas-Dallas. Bray is an internationally known expert in obesity,
   now partially retired, but still has NIH grant support. He lives in San Francisco
   but commutes to an institute in Louisiana. Small became a microbiologist at
   the University of Florida.


4. We published a series of papers based on this work, the first of which appear­
   ed in the first volume of the journal, Experimental Neurology, which William
   Windle–chief of the NINDB Laboratory of Neuroanatomical Sciences–
   had founded while he was at the NIH. Our second paper concerned vesti­
   bular interactions with various segmental levels of the spinal cord and was
   published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. The third article focused upon