Edwin Fuller Torrey,is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is associate director of research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) and founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC),a nonprofit organization whose principal activity is promoting the passage and implementation of outpatient commitment laws and civil commitment laws and standards in individual states that allow people diagnosed with mental illness to be forcibly committed and medicated easily throughout the United States.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH,in turn,is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research.
Herbert Pardes is an American physician,psychiatrist,and the executive vice-chairman of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
Leon Eisenberg was an American child psychiatrist,social psychiatrist and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems".
Loren Richard Mosher was an American psychiatrist,clinical professor of psychiatry,expert on schizophrenia and the chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the National Institute of Mental Health (1968–1980). Mosher spent his professional career advocating for humane and effective treatment for people diagnosed as having schizophrenia and was instrumental in developing an innovative,residential,home-like,non-hospital,non-drug treatment model for newly identified acutely psychotic persons.
Nora Volkow is a Mexican-American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA),which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Maximilian Fink is an American neurologist and psychiatrist best known for his work on ECT. His early work also included studies on the effect of psychoactive drugs on brain electrical activity;more recently he has written about the syndromes of catatonia and melancholia.
Frederick King Goodwin was an American psychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center,where he was also director of the Center on Neuroscience,Medical Progress,and Society. He was a specialist in bipolar disorder and recurrent depression.
Steven Edward Hyman is Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge,Massachusetts. He is also Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Hyman was Provost of Harvard University from 2001 to 2011 and before that Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1996 to 2001. Hyman received the 2016 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine for "leadership in furthering understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders as biological diseases".
Jeffrey Alan Lieberman is an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related psychoses and their associated neuroscience (biology) and pharmacological treatment. He was principal investigator for CATIE,the largest and longest independent study ever funded by the United States National Institute of Mental Health to examine existing pharmacotherapies for schizophrenia. He was president of the American Psychiatric Association from May 2013 to May 2014.
Olga Maria Von Tauber was a psychiatrist and philanthropist,who served in the hospitals of Long Island,New York,United States.
James Frederick Leckman,M.D.,is a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry,Psychiatry,Psychology and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine,recognized for his research in Tourette syndrome (TS) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).
William T. Carpenter,M.D. is a psychiatrist,a pioneer in the fields of psychiatry and pharmacology who served as an expert witness in the John W. Hinckley trial for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. His primary professional interest is in severe mental illness,especially schizophrenia,to the prevention and treatment of which he has made significant contributions in psychopathology,assessment methodology,testing of new treatments,and research ethics.
Daniel Blain,M.D. (1898–1981) was an American physician and was the first medical director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA),the first professional medical society,founded in the United States in 1844. He may be credited with the leadership which brought changes in the practice of psychiatry after World War II and in advocating the treatment for people with mental disorders.
Lucy Dorothy Ozarin was a psychiatrist who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy,and she was one of seven female Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.
Judith L. Rapoport is an American psychiatrist. She is the chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland.
Bertram S. Brown was an American psychiatrist who was the head of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1970 to 1977,Assistant Surgeon General from 1978 to 1980,and president and chief executive of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 1987. He pioneered research in psychiatry,especially in mental disabilities.
Lewis Lund Judd was an American neurobiologist and psychiatrist. He served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1988 to 1992,chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California,San Diego from 1977 to 2013,and as a vice president of the American Psychiatric Association. As NIMH director he helped develop the "Decade of the Brain",a research plan designed "to bring a precise and detailed understanding of all the elements of brain function within our own lifetime."
Wallace B. Mendelson is an American psychiatrist and author,working primarily in the fields of sleep research and psychopharmacology. He most recently worked at the University of Chicago as a professor of psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and the director of the school's Sleep Research Laboratory. He is the author of thirteen books and numerous papers in the fields of sleep science and pharmacology.
Jonathan Otis Cole was a psychiatrist and the former chief of psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital was considered to be the “father of clinical psychopharmacology in the United States ... internationally known for his breakthrough research on the use of drugs to treat psychiatric illnesses.”
