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- Sokoloff, “Seymour S. Kety,” 10. One of Felix’s oral histories points this out
explicitly: “I was continually impressed with how utterly naïve most all
psychiatrists were in research design or in research execution....And I was
upset about it. We tried to get some research training started and I began
to be kind of shook [sic] by the fact that our people, even those who were
going to evaluate the research training programs, were not really investi
gators themselves.” (Felix, oral history by Rubinstein, 70).
- Seymour S. Kety, “Mental Illness and the Sciences of Brain and Behavior,”
Nature Medicine, 5, no. 10 (October 1999): 1114.
- Kety, NIH Report, 1951-1952, 143.
- Kety, NIMH Annual Report, 1956.
- Kety, NIH Report, 1951-1952.
- Kety, NIMH Annual Report, 1954, 1.
- Felix, oral history by Rubinstein, 178-9.
- Kety, “Mental Illness,” 1114.
- NIMH, Research in the Service of Mental Health; Grob, From Asylum
to Community.
- Kety, NIMH Annual Report, 1955.
- NIMH, Research in the Service of Mental Health.
- Felix, NIMH Annual Report, 1954, 1.
- NIH Report, 1951-1952. Only Developmental Neurology and Endocrin
ology will be described here; the rest will be described within the respective
umbrella laboratories.
- NIH Report, 1951-1952, 144.
- Proposed Organization of Basic Research Program of NIMH and NINDB,
August 29, 1952, RG 511, NARA.
- See Guth’s chapter, this volume.
- 1951-1954 and Intramural Project Reports, NIMH Central Files, Shelf 1/3,
Compartment 19, row 70, Area 130, RG 511, NARA.
- See the Laboratory of Neurophysiology review for further information
and Appendices B and C for lists of all laboratory members and selected
landmark papers. The Section on Cortical Integration was also known as
the Section on Cerebral Cortex.
- See the Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies review for further
information and Appendices B and C for lists of all laboratory members
and selected landmark papers.
- See the Laboratory of Neurochemistry review for further information
and Appendices B and C for lists of all laboratory members and selected
landmark papers.
- The Laboratory of Psychology and the Laboratory of Clinical Science were
established in October 1953, and June 1955, respectively, but are discussed
in the NIMH Clinical Research Program Section, because Dr. Robert A.
Cohen, Director of Clinical Research, was most responsible for the
recruitment of the chiefs of these laboratories.
