1. Stanley Cobb was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States".
14 Facts About Stanley Cobb
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Stanley Cobb studied biology at Harvard College, and medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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In 1922, Stanley Cobb was asked to discover why patients with epilepsy had improved when they were starved.
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Stanley Cobb recruited William Lennox as an assistant to investigate the ketogenic diet that had been proposed as being as effective as starvation in the treatment of epilepsy.
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When Stanley Cobb moved to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1934, he was succeeded by Tracey Putnam.
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Stanley Cobb built the department of psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Stanley Cobb championed psychoanalysis, giving it respectability when others in that conservative hospital disapproved.
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Stanley Cobb published an annual review of neuropsychiatry in the Archive of Internal Medicine from 1935 to 1959.
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When he retired in 1954, Stanley Cobb directed his interest towards the study of avian neurology.
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Stanley Cobb was passionately opposed to the widespread spraying of DDT.
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Stanley Cobb died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 25,1968, at the age of 80.
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Stanley Cobb addressed the mind-body problem in Borderlands of Psychiatry :.
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In 1956, Cobb received the George M Kober Medal for his contributions to medicine.
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In 1967, Stanley Cobb received a Distinguished Service Award from the New York Academy of Medicine.