Charles Bradley (psychiatrist)

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Charles Bradley (born December 1, 1902 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † May 1979 in Tigard , Oregon ) was an American psychiatrist . As part of a study in 1937, he first used amphetamine, an amphetamine , in children with behavioral problems, whose disorders then improved. He repeated the study in 1941. Bradley's studies are considered fundamental to the psychotropic therapy of children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder .

Publications (selection)

  • The Behavior of Children Receiving Benzedrine. In: American Journal of Psychiatry , Nov. 1937, No. 94, pp. 577-581 ( online ).
  • With Margaret Bowen: Amphetamine (Benzedrine) therapy of children's behavior disorders. In: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , January 1941, vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 92-103, doi : 10.1111 / j.1939-0025.1941.tb05781.x .
  • With George B. Rosenfeld: Childhood Behavior Sequelae of Asphyxia in Infancy. With Special Reference to Pertussis and Asphyxia Neonatorum. In: Pediatrics , July 1948, Volume 2, No. 1, pp. 74-84, PMID 18874466 ( online ).

literature

  • Walter A. Brown: Charles Bradley, MD, 1902-1979. In: American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 155, No. 7, 1998, p. 968, doi : 10.1176 / ajp.155.7.968 .

Web links

  • Walter A. Brown: Charles Bradley . International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology (INHN).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Madeleine P. Strohl: Bradley's Benzedrine studies on children with behavioral disorders. In: The Yale journal of biology and medicine. Volume 84, Number 1, March 2011, pp. 27-33, PMID 21451781 , PMC 3064242 (free full text).
  2. ^ Aribert Rothenberger , Klaus-Jürgen Neumärker: The history of science of ADHD - Kramer-Pollnow in the mirror of time. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-7985-1552-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Bradley, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 1979
Place of death Tigard , Oregon