Seymour S. Kety
Seymour S. Kety | |
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| Born | August 25, 1915 |
| Died | May 25, 2000 (aged 84) |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Use of citrate to decrease lead poisoning; study of schizophrenia |
| Spouse | Josephine Gross |
| Awards | Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, NAS Award in the Neurosciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry, genetics |
| Institutions | Philadelphia General Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University |
| Academic advisors | Joseph Charles Aub |
Seymour S. Kety (August 25, 1915 – May 25, 2000) 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."