Paul D. MacLean
Paul D. MacLean (born May 1, 1913 in Phelps , New York , † December 26, 2007 in Potomac , Maryland ) was an American neuroscientist. He made valuable contributions to physiology, psychiatry and brain research.
biography
Paul D. MacLean was born the third son of a Presbyterian minister. In 1935 he received his bachelor's degree in English from Yale University . Then he wanted to study philosophy in Edinburgh ( Scotland ) . After a family illness, he instead spent a year completing his pre-medical studies in Edinburgh. MacLean received his medical college degree from Yale University in 1940.
From 1942 to 1946 and during World War II , MacLean served as a medical officer in the US Army . While serving in New Zealand , MacLean worked with Dr. Averill Liebow set about pointing out the diphtheria bacillus as a cause of tropical ulcers. You thus paved the way for successful prevention and treatment.
After he left the army in 1946 , he practiced medicine in Seattle and got a job in the medical school ("Medical School") of the University of Washington . From 1947 to 1949 he was a USPHS employee at Massachusetts General Hospital ("Harvard Medical School") and conducted studies with Dr. Stanley Cobb. During this time MacLean researched the psychomotor connections of epilepsy and published his work on the “visceral brain” - in 1952 he coined the term “ limbic system ” for it.
In 1949 he got a job in the physiological and psychiatric faculty of the "Yale Medical School". Together with Dr. John Fulton, among other things, the brain mechanisms of feelings. During this time he began to formulate his theory of the “ Triune Brain ”, which became the basis of his research in the course of his career.
In 1956 he became associate professor for physiology and spent a year in an institute for physiology in Zurich ( Switzerland ).
MacLean was in 1957 director of a new research department of the limbic system in the Laboratory for Neurophysiology at the " National Institute of Mental Health " (NIMH). He won prestigious research awards in 1964 and 1972 and lectured at the New York Academy of Medicine.
In 1971 he became head of a laboratory for brain development and behavior that had recently been opened by the National Institute of Mental Health in Poolesville ( Maryland ), which he directed from 1971 to 1985. The laboratory was designed for comparative neurological behavioral research on animals in semi-natural environments. MacLean ended his scientific career as a senior researcher ( emeritus ) in the academic department of neurophysiology of the "National Institute of Mental Health".
Audiovisual materials, reports, correspondence, research papers, photographs and documents in the National Library of Medicine document MacLean's contributions to brain and behavioral research.
Works
- Together with VA Kral: A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behavior , Ontario Mental Health Foundation 1973, 165 pp. ISBN 0802032990 .
- The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions , Springer Science & Business Media 1990, 672 pp. ISBN 0306431688 .
literature
- Gerald A. Cory, Russell Gardner (editors): The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean: Convergences and Frontiers . Praeger Publishers, December 30, 2002 (English). ISBN 978-0275972196 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Obituary New York Times article on Paul D. MacLean and his work, January 10, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacLean, Paul D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American brain researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phelps , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2007 |
| Place of death | Potomac , Maryland |