Background
Mishkin, Mortimer was born on December 13, 1926 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States.
Mishkin, Mortimer was born on December 13, 1926 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1946. Master of Arts, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1951.
Doctor of Science (honorary), McGill University, 2004.
Assistant in research and physiology and psychiatry Yale University Medical School, New Haven, 1949-1951. Research associate Institute of Living, Hartford-Connecticut and New York University Bellevue Medical Center, New York City, 1951-1955. Research psychologist, section on neuropsychology National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1955-1975, research physiologist, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, 1976-1978, chief section cerebral mechanisms Laboratory of Neuropsychology, 1979-1980, chief Laboratory of Neuropsychology, 1980-1997, associate director basic research DIRP, 1994-1997, chief section cognitive neuroscience, since 1997, acting chief, lab neuropsychology, since 2005, senior investigator.
Part-time instructor psychology Howard University, 1956-1958. Visiting scientist Nencki Institute Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland, winter 1958, 68, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Neuroscis., summer 1978, Oxford University Department Experimental Psychology, summer 1979, Institute Child Health University College London, 1993, visiting professor, since 2000. Member psychological science panel National Institutes of Health, 1959-1961, experimental psychology study section, 1965-1969.
Member National Institute of Mental Health Assembly of Scientists Council, 1962-1964, 72-74. Member National Institute of Mental Health Scientist Promotion Review Committee, 1984-1986. Member advisory committee Cognitive Neurosci.
Institute, 1982-1986. Member National Institutes of Health Fogart International Scholars-in-Residence Advisory Panel, 1985-1989, McDonnell Foundation Study panel, 1987-1989. Advisory board McDonnell-Pew Program Cognitive Neurosci., 1989-1994.
Consultant Developmental Cognitive Neurosci. Unit, Institute Child Health, University College London, since 1990, visiting professor, since 2000. Active Human Frontier Science Program, 1992-1994, chairman 1993.
Advisory board Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 1994-1996, chair, 1999, 2004. Advisory board Louisiana State University Neurosci. Center, 1994-1996, Frontier Research Program, Rikagaku Kenkyūsho, Japan, 1994-1996, Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 1994-2000, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosci.
Panel, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1996, Mental Health and Neurosci. Clinical Research Center, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996-1998, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fellow Mentor Program, 1997-2002.
Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chair-elect 1990-1991, chair 1991-1992, past chair 1992-1993), American Psychological Association Association (officer, division 6 member at large 1964-1966, council representative 1967-1969, president 1968-1969, Distinguished Scientific Contribution award, 1985). Member National Academy of Sciences (officer, section 52 chairman 1989-1992), Eastern Psychological Association, International Brain Research Organization (officer, representative-at-large governing council 1993-1998), International Neuropsychol.
Society, International Neuropsychol. Symposium, International Primatological Society, International Society Neuroethology, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (Hermann von Helmholtz award, 1989) Society Experimental Psychologists (Howard Crosby Warren medal 1998), Society Neurosci. (officer, president-elect 1985-1986, president 1986-1987, past president 1987-1988), Institute Medicine, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married; 2 children.