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publication of the important book Human Aging, as well as the collabo­
rative work on schizophrenia in monozygotic quadruplets among five
laboratories leading, among other things, to the publication The Genain
Quadruplets. This interdisciplinary collaboration would only increase as
a result of the joint laboratory and branch chief meetings established
by John C. Eberhart and Robert A. Cohen when Eberhart arrived in
1961 as the new director of the NIMH basic research program.

Notes

1. Robert A. Cohen, oral history interview by Ingrid G. Farreras, January 18,
   2002, transcript, ONH.


2. See Cohen’s chapter, this volume.


3. Ibid.


4. Ibid.


5. Cohen, oral history interview by Ingrid G. Farreras, January 23, 2002,
   transcript, ONH; Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1959.


6. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1959, 2; see Cohen’s chapter, this volume.


7. Ibid.


8. Cohen, NIMH Annual Reports, 1954-1957.


9. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1956.


10. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1954, 1.


11. Ibid.: “some in whom the onset of the illness had been relatively recent
    and acute [and] others who had been hospitalized for many years and in
    whom the disease process was regarded as being relatively fixed and stable.”


12. Cohen, NIMH Annual Reports, 1953 and 1956.


13. See Cohen’s chapter, this volume.


14. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1955, 1-2.


15. “[T]he Clinical Center Administration wished to refer to an organization
    which was engaged in the care and study of patients as a Branch; if it
    was engaged in biological research, etc. it [w]ould be termed a Laboratory”
    (Cohen, e-mail message to Farreras, June 29, 2004).


16. Cohen, NIMH Annual Report, 1958, 1-2.


17. Cohen, NIMH Annual Reports, 1955 and 1959.


18. Felix, oral history by Brand, 15.


19. Felix, oral history by Rubinstein. “I wanted the lower floors, because in those
    days it was thought...that psychiatric patients should be on the lower
    floors, because this way they could get out on the grounds better, and in
    case of fire, you’d get them out faster.” (Felix, oral history by Brand, 15).
    The NIMH would lose 25 beds to the NCI; there was genuine pressure
    to use or lose the beds (Cohen’s chapter, this volume).