educator psychiatrist researcher
B. Hartford, Connecticut, June 3, 1933;son John Robert and Anne Barnard (Cotter) H. M.Lia Cesarea Silvestri, May 19, 1995.
Bachelor, Connecticut Wesleyan University, 1955. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1959.
Diplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology.
Licensed physician, Massachusetts.
Intern, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1959-1960. Resident in psychiatry Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1960-1961, 64-66. National Institute of Mental Health special fellow department physiology U. Lyon, France, 1963-1964.
Research associate department physiology Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1964-1967, instructor psychiatry, 1966-1967, associate in psychiatry, 1967-1969,assistant professor, 1969-1974, 74-78, professor psychiatry, since 1978, professor psychiatry (neuroscience), since 1983.
Senior psychiatrist Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1965-1967, director laboratory neurophysiology, 1967, principal psychiatrist, since 1967, director group psychotherapy training program, 1972-1980. Lecturer psychiatry Brown University, Providence, 1972-1974.
Clinical associate National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1961-1963. Visiting science, lecturer U. Bordeaux, France, 1973.
Sandoz lecturer U. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1975.
Lecturer Italian National Health Research Institute, Rome, 1978. Visiting professor Istituto di Psicologia, U. degli Studi, Rome, 1983. Participant international conferences.
Member science advisory board NIMHIntramural program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1981-1984, Max Planck Institute Psychiatry, Munich, 1985.
Scholar in residence Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1987. Decade of the Brain lecturer Society Neurosci.
1991, American Academy Neurology, 1993. Joseph P. Erlanger Distinguished lecturer American Physiological Society, Sleep Research Society Distinguished Scientist Award, 1998.
Author:The Dreaming Brain, 1988, Sleep, 1989, The Chemistry of Conscious States, 1994, Consciousness, 1998.
Member editorial board Journal Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 1980, Archives Itallienes de Biologie, 1983;contributing editor Sleep Revs., 1970-1972, associate editor, 1972-1973, editor-in-chief, 1973-1974, book review editor, 1975-1976. Section editor Neuroreport, 1990, Psychophysiology, 1993. Associate editor Dreaming.
Contributor articles to professional journals Olin scholar, 1951.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association Psychophysiol. Study of Sleep, Society Neurosci. (program committee 1974-1976, chairman museum advisory group 1976), Boylston Medical Society, Mind-Body Network, John Doctorate.and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Sigma Xi.
Club: Thursday.
Married Joan Merle Harlowe, June 18, 1956 (divorced January 1993). Children: Ian, Christopher, Julia.
