Robert H. Noce

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Robert H. Noce (born February 19, 1914 , † 1995 ) was an American psychiatrist .

Noce studied at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, where he received his PhD (MD).

He was the clinical director of Modesto State Hospital in California. There he investigated in a clinical study in 1953/54 the effects of reserpine in psychiatry, an alkaloid of the Indian snake root (Rauwolfia), whose antihypertensive effect had become known in 1949, but which also had a calming effect. For this he and others ( Nathan S. Kline was also honored for the use of reserpine in psychiatry ) in 1957 the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award .

Reserpine was isolated in 1952 in the CIBA laboratories in Switzerland and its use in schizophrenia was suggested in 1953 by R. Hakim.

The discoveries attracted a great deal of attention at the time, and around the same time other new psychotropic drugs were introduced into therapy, such as chlorpromazine .

Fonts

  • Robert H. Noce, David B. Williams, Walter Rapaport: Reserpine (Serpasil) in the management of the mentally ill . In: JAMA , Volume 158, 1955, pp. 11-15, abstract
  • Robert H. Noce, David B. Williams, Walter Rapaport: Reserpine (Serpasil) in the management of the mentally ill and the mentally etarded . In: JAMA , Volume 156, 1954, pp. 821-824.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members, American Psychiatric Association 1983
personal data
SURNAME Noce, Robert H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1914
DATE OF DEATH 1995