1. Jean Delay was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Academie francaise.
15 Facts About Jean Delay
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Jean Delay wrote his doctoral thesis on astereognosis in 1935.
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Jean Delay then undertook the study at the Sorbonne and in 1942 wrote his thesis on diseases of memory.
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Jean Delay was the father of Florence Delay, of the Academie francaise, and of fr:Claude Delay, novelist and psychoanalyst.
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Jean Delay received training in the psychiatry clinic of Henri Ey at the fr:Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne.
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Jean Delay remained at the hospital until 1970 when he retired from medicine.
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Jean Delay twice served as president of the WPA, and as president of the French language Congress of Neurology and Psychiatry, the Society Medico-Psychologique, the International Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum.
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Jean Delay was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1955.
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Jean Delay pioneered research on drugs including LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin.
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Jean Delay's name came first on these papers in part because he was the leader of a department with strong hierarchy.
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Jean Delay's team studied isoniazid and its effect on depression, around 1952.
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Deniker, with Harl and Jean Delay, published the success with chlorpromazine in May 1952.
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Jean Delay decided to work on literature, which was his first love.
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Jean Delay was elected to the Academie francaise in 1959 and wrote remarkable biographical studies on the Youth of Andre Gide, and his maternal ancestors in the four volumes of Preliminary Memory.
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Jean Delay used the pseudonym Jean Faurel from his days at Salpetriere until sometime before 1959.