Pierre Deniker
Pierre Deniker (born February 16, 1917 in Paris , † August 17, 1998 ) was a French psychiatrist .
Deniker was in the French army and the Resistance during World War II and received the Croix de guerre for it . He received his doctorate in medicine in 1945 and was Medical Director of the Center hospitalier Sainte-Anne in Paris, which he remained until 1985. In 1961 he became a professor of psychiatry and neurology .
Deniker and his teacher Jean Delay discovered in 1952 that chlorpromazine can be used as a therapeutic agent for schizophrenia . Both introduced the name neuroleptics for this class of neuropharmaceuticals . Both were also involved in demonstrating the anti-depression effect of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor iponiazid , and in 1954 they described the antidepressant effect of Rauwolfia serpentina .
In 1957 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award .
From 1975 to 1998 he was editor of the journal L'Encéphale, founded in the 19th century by Jules Bernard Luys (1828–1897) .
He was a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine . He was also a Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Ordre national du Mérite .
Works
- La psycho-pharmacologie, Éditions PUF, Que sais-je? Series, 1969
- with Daniel Ginestet, Benoît Dalle: Maniement des médicaments psychotropes, Édition Doin, 1980
- La dépression fin du tunnel, Plon 1988
- Editor with Thérèse Lemperière, Jean Guyotat: Précis de psychiatrie clinique de l'adulte, Masson, Précis de Médecine, 1989
- Les drogues: trafic et contagion, Plon, 1991
- with Jean-Pierre Olié: Fou, moi? La psychiatrie hier et aujourd'hui, Odile Jacob, 1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Luys, Jules Bernard. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 874.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deniker, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 17, 1998 |