Biography

	Akiskal Hakob (Suren)
	Aqsqalyan Hakob
Armenian:	Ակիսկալ Հակոբ Սուրենի
Russian:	Акискал Акоб Суренович ;
Born:	1944 ; Beirut, Lebanon
	Description:; Psychiatrist, scientist.

Was born in 1944 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Education

In 1969 finished the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut (AUB).

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.

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).

In 1969 moved to the USA.
His works refer to the depression, emotion and the regulation of brain mechanisms.

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

Akiskal Hakob (Suren)
Aqsqalyan Hakob

Armenian:	Ակիսկալ Հակոբ Սուրենի
Russian:	Акискал Акоб Суренович
Born:	1944 Beirut, Lebanon
Description: Psychiatrist, scientist.