Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist. Born in 1934, in

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, he received his

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from Stanford University in 1954 and his

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from

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in 1958. Founding chairman in 1969 of the Department of Psychiatry at the

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, he was, at the time of his appointment, the youngest physician ever appointed as a chairman of a medical school psychiatry program in the U.S. An early biological psychiatrist, the department was the first in the U.S. to be biologically oriented. After leaving

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, he has been involved in studying the basic science and applied mathematics of brain activity and behavior. He is the director of research of the Cielo Institute., a clinical professor of psychiatry at

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., a research professor of health and wellness at

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, professor of psychiatry at

, visiting scientist at the Core MEG Lab at the

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, and a senior research associate at

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Awards

* 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program * A.E. Bennett Research Prize of the Society for Biological Psychiatry * 1994 Senior Humboldt Prize Fellowship in Dynamical Systems, Bremen University * Foundations Fund Research Prize of the

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* Johananoff International Prize Fellow in Psychopharmacology (Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy).

Partial list of works

* ''Psychochemical Research in Man: Methods, Strategy, and Theory'' (with Mary P. Mandell) (1969) * ''New Concepts in Neurotransmitter Regulation'' (1973) * ''The Nightmare Season'' (1976) * ''Coming of Middle Age: A Journey'' (1977) * ''Perspectives in biological dynamics and theoretical medicine'' (with Stephen H Koslow, Michael F. Shlesinger) (1987)
"Psychoanalysis and Psychopharmachology"
in ''Modern Psychoanalysis: New Directions and Perspectives'', Editor Judd Marmor, Transaction Publishers, 1995, *

' (2005)

References

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