Nancy Andreasen

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Nancy Coover Andreasen (born November 11, 1938 in Lincoln , Nebraska ) is an American English scholar and psychiatrist, known for research on schizophrenia .

Life

Andreasen studied English at the University of Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and received his doctorate there in 1963. She also had a Masters degree from Radcliffe College (1959) and a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford. She dealt with English literature of the Renaissance and here with John Donne . 1963 to 1966 she was an assistant professor in English at the University of Iowa . She then began studying medicine at the University of Iowa with an MD degree in 1970. After completing her residency in psychiatry in 1973, she was a Principal Investigator in a study of depression by the National Institutes of Mental Health. In 1977 she became Assistant Professor and 1981 Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa. There she is Andrew H. Woods Professor and Director of the Neuroimaging Research Center and the Mental Health Clinical Research Center of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

Nancy Andreasen has two daughters.

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She dealt with schizophrenia and in the 1970s examined the connection between schizophrenia and creativity and quantitatively defined positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia (the latter includes apathy , anhedonia , inability to express emotions, loss of fluency in thinking and speaking, antisociality, among the positive Symptoms such as those that are not associated with losses, but with intensification of normal activity such as paranoia, hallucinations, loss of control over language and behavior) She also made the first quantitative studies on schizophrenia with the help of magnetic resonance imaging. Her institute developed the Brains software package for this purpose.

She was one of the first to find signs of abnormalities in the brain of some schizophrenic patients (enlarged cerebral ventricles ), which could then be examined much more closely with MRI, which revealed other abnormalities (in the hippocampus and temporal lobes or parts of them such as the gyrus temporalis superior with the Wernicke language center). Patients with schizophrenia also showed in the SPECT tomogram that they had problems with the activation of the frontal lobe even in the early stages . Her group later continued the schizophrenia exams with PET . A secondary result of the investigations was that the sensation of pleasure is not only located in the deeper areas of the brain ( limbic system ), but that the cerebral cortex also has an essential function and that negative sensations trigger higher brain activity than positive ones.

Honors, memberships, editing

In 2003 she received the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize and in 2000 the National Medal of Science . She has received the American Psychiatric Association Research Award, the Stanley Dean Award from the American College of Psychiatrist, and the Lieber Schizophrenia Research Prize from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. She also received the Career Scientist Award and MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In 2002 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Nebraska. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

She was long the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Fonts

  • John Donne: Conservative Revolutionary, Princeton University Press 1967
  • The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry, Harper and Row 1984
    • German translation: The dysfunctional brain. Introduction to Biological Psychiatry, Beltz 1990
  • Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome, Oxford University Press, 2001
  • The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, New York: Dana Press 2005
  • with Donald W. Black: Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Publishing, 5th Edition 2010
  • Schizophrenia: From Mind to Molecule, American Psychiatric Publ., 1994
  • Brain Imaging: Applications in Psychiatry, Science, Volume 239, 1988, pp. 1381-1388
  • The Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS), Iowa City: The University of Iowa, 1984
  • The Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS). Iowa City: The University of Iowa, 1983
  • The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 13, 1987, pp. 9-22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Andreasen, The creative writer: psychiatric symptoms and family history, Comprehensive Psychiatry 15, 1974, pp. 123-121
  3. ↑ Andreasen, Creativity and Mental Illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives, Am J Psychiatry, Volume 144, 1987, pp. 1288-1292
  4. ^ Andreasen, Negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Definition and reliability, Arch. General Psychiatry, Volume 39, 1982, pp. 784-788
  5. ^ Andreasen, Olsen, Negative v positive schizophrenia. Definition and validation, Arch. General Psychiatry, Volume 39, 1982, pp. 789-794
  6. ^ Andreasen, Exploring the mind and brain in health and disease
personal data
SURNAME Andreasen, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreasen, Nancy Coover (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American English scholar and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , Nebraska