Joseph T. Coyle

Joseph Thomas "Jos" Coyle (* 1943 ) is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at McLean Hospital in Belmont , Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School in Boston , Massachusetts.

Coyle earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1965 and an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1969 with a medical degree. As an assistant doctor, he first worked in paediatrics before moving to the National Institutes of Health for a three-year research stay with the Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod . From 1973 he continued his specialist training in psychiatry . From 1975 he was a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, in 1980 he was appointed professor of neuroscience , pharmacology and psychiatry. In 1991 he moved to Harvard University , where he is today (as of 2017) Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Laboratory for Psychiatric and Molecular Neurosciences at McLean Hospital .

Coyle deals with developmental neurobiology , neuronal vulnerability and psychopharmacology or neuropsychopharmacology . Much of his work deals with the role of glutaminergic neurons in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders .

A commemorative publication was published in his honor in 2016 . According to Google Scholar, Coyle has an h-index of 137 (as of March 2020) and 109 according to the Scopus database. He is the editor of the journal JAMA Psychiatry .

Awards (selection)

• 1979 John J. Abel Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• 1991/92 President of the Society for Neuroscience
• 1994 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1996 Pasarow Award for Neuropsychiatry
• 2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2017 Sarnat Prize from the National Academy of Medicine

Web links

• Joseph T. Coyle, MD at McLean Hospital (mcleanhospital.org)
• Joseph T. Coyle, MD at Harvard Catalyst Profiles (catalyst.harvard.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neuropsychopharmacology: A Tribute to Joseph T. Coyle . In: Robert Schwarcz (Ed.): Advances in Pharmacology . tape 76 . Academic Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-12-809820-2 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ^ Joseph T. Coyle. In: scholar.google.com. Google Scholar , accessed March 7, 2018 . 
3. ^ Coyle, Joseph T. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed April 1, 2020 . 
4. ^ ASPET - John J. Abel Award. In: aspet.org. April 21, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 . 
5. ^ Society for Neuroscience - Presidents. In: sfn.org. November 14, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 21, 2017 . 
7. ↑ By Christopher Tedeschi: Pasarow foundation to honor outstanding researchers. In: news.usc.edu. May 19, 1997, accessed December 21, 2017 . 
8. ^ Joseph Coyle, Catherine Lord, and Matthew State Receive National Academy of Medicine's Sarnat Award for Outstanding Achievements in Improving Mental Health. In: nam.edu. October 16, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 .