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Seymour S. Kety

(1915–2000) Neuroscientist

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Seymour S. Kety was a neuroscientist, best known for The Transmission of schizophrenia.

Quick Facts About Seymour S. Kety

Born
August 25, 1915
Died
May 25, 2000
Profession
Neuroscientist
Notable works
The Transmission of schizophrenia

About Seymour S. Kety

Seymour S. Kety was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease. After Kety died, his colleague Louis Sokoloff noted that: "He discovered a method for measuring blood flow in the brain, was the first scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and produced the most-definitive evidence for the essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia."

Biography source: Wikipedia

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