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Frederic Garfield Worden (born March 22, 1918 in Syracuse , New York , † June 7, 1995 ) was an American doctor , university professor and neuroscientist .

Life

Frederic Garfield Worden, son of Vivien S. Worden and his wife Alice Garfield Davis Worden, began an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College after attending school , which he completed in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent postgraduate study of medicine at the University of Chicago , he graduated in 1942 with a doctor of medicine (MD). He then began his professional career and initially worked as an internist at the Osler Medical Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1942 and 1943 and as a doctor at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic from 1943 to 1950 . He also served as a major in the Army of the United States . At the same time he was from 1946 to 1948 Fellow of the Commonwealth Foundation and research assistant in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and between 1949 and 1952 lecturer in psychiatry at the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute . He was also medical director of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson from 1950 to 1952 and thereafter therapeutic director from 1952 to 1953.

In 1953 Worden took over a professorship for psychiatry and psychiatric research at the Medical Faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught until 1969. Most recently, between 1968 and 1969, he was also head of the adult psychiatry department at UCLA's medical school. In 1969 he became Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Neuroscientific Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked until his retirement in 1983. In 1971 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was also a member of the Examination Board for Scientific Research Development of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) between 1971 and 1974 . He was also a member of the Brain Sciences Commission of the National Research Council (NRC) from 1971 to 1974 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Endowed Fund for Psychiatric Research from 1973 to 1976. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NIMH from 1975 to 1978, from 1979 to 1995 a member of the Board of Directors of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and from 1980 to 1983 a member of the National Advisory Board of the Mental Health Council .

His marriage to Katharine Cole on January 8, 1944 resulted in three sons and two daughters.

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  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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SURNAME Worden, Frederic Garfield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physician, neuroscientist, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1995