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Karacan, Ismet was born on July 23, 1927 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Ismet Karacan
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Ismet Karacan, Turkish Psychiatrist, educator. Achievements include research in phychological and physiological mechanisms of male impotence, neurophysiological and biochemical mechanisms responsible for male erectile failure, pharmacology of human sleep. Recipient Nathaniel Kleitman prize Association Sleep Disorders Centers, 1981.
Education
Bachelor of Science, U. Istanbul, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, U. Istanbul, 1953; DSC in Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 1965.
Career
From associate professor to professor psychiatry, director Sleep laboratories, U. Florida, Gainville, 1966-1973; professor psychiatry, director Sleep Disorders & Research Center, Baylor College Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston, since 1973; associate chief staff research & development, director Sleep Research Laboratory, VA Medical Center, Houston, since 1973.
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Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American College Physicians. Member American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sleep Research Society (president 1976-1979), New York Academy Science, American College Neuropsychopharmacol., British Association Psychopharmacol.
