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Akiskal Hakob (Suren) | |
Aqsqalyan Hakob | |
Armenian: | Ակիսկալ Հակոբ Սուրենի |
Russian: | Акискал Акоб Суренович |
Born: | 1944 Beirut, Lebanon |
Description: Psychiatrist, scientist. |
Contents
Biography
Was born in 1944 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Education
- In 1969 finished the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut (AUB).
Work activity
- Since 1981-Director of the American Psychiatric National Institute Project, Deputy Director of the Baptist Hospital in Memphis.
- 1990-1994-The chief advisor of the Director of the US National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, DC.
- Since 1995-Director of the UC (University of California) San Diego International Center.
- Since 1997-Special Adviser of the WHO (World Health Organization) Director in Geneva.
Achievements
- Doctor of Medical Sciences.
- Honorary Doctor of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
- In 1980-Professor of psychiatry and psychopharmacotherapy.
- In 2002-The highest prize of psychiatry.
- In 2003-Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
- The Gold Medal for Pioneer Research (Society of Biological Psychiatry).
- The German Anna Monika Prize for Depression.
- The NARSAD Prize for Affective Disorders.
- The Jean Delay Prize for international collaborative research (World Psychiatric Association).
Other
- In 1969 moved to the USA.
- His works refer to the depression, emotion and the regulation of brain mechanisms.
Images
Bibliography
- Akiskal HS, McKinney WT: Depressive disorders: Toward a unified hypothesis. Science 182:20-29, 1973
- Akiskal HS:Dysthymia: Psychopathology of proposed chronic depressive subtypes. Am J Psychiatry 140:11-20, 1983. Abstract
- Akiskal HS,Downs J, Jordan P, Watson S, Daugherty D, Pruitt DB: Affective disorders in the referred children and younger siblings of manic-depressives: Mode of onset and prospective course. Arch Gen Psychiatry 42:996-1003, 1985
- Akiskal HS, Maser JD, Zeller P, Endicott J, Coryell W, Keller M, Warshaw M, Clayton P, Goodwin FK: Switching from “unipolar” to bipolar II: An 11-year prospective study of clinical and temperamental predictors in 559 patients. Arch Gen Psychiatry 52:114-123, 1995
- Akiskal HS, Bourgeois ML, Angst J, Post R, Moller HJ, Hirschfeld RMA: Re-evaluating the prevalence of and diagnostic composition within the broad clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders. J Affect Disord 59 [Suppl 1]: 5s – 30s, 2000
See also
- Ով ով է.հայեր(կենսագրական հանրագիտարան),ՀՀ խմբ. հանձնաժողով`Հ.Մ. Այվազյան (գլխ. խմբագիր) և ուրիշներ,Երևան,Հայկական հանրագիտարան հրատ., Հ.1, Աբալյան-Ղուշչյան, 2005:
- Հակոբ Ակիսկալ, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ պաշտոնական կայք
- University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry
- Hagop S. Akiskal