Background

Lipowski, Zbigniew Jerzy was born on October 26, 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. Son of Jerzy Ignacy and Zofia (Szeliski) Lipowski. emigrated to Canada, 1955, naturalized, 1960.

Zbigniew J. Lipowski, M.D.1924–1997 (In memorandum)

Education

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, U. College, Dublin, 1954;

Diploma in Psychiatry, McGill University, 1959;

M.D. (honorary), University Helsinki, 1981;

Master of Arts (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1981.

Career

Resident in psychiatry, Allan Memorial Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1955-1958;

Resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1958-1959;

teaching fellow in psychiatry, Harvard University, Boston, 1958-1959;

demonstrator in psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, 1959-1962;

lecturer, McGill University, 1962-1965;

assistant professor, McGill University, 1965-1967;

associate professor, McGill University, 1967-1971;

director psychiatric consultant service, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1959-1971;

professor psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., 1971-1983;

professor psychiatry, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1983-1990;

professor emeritus psychiatry, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, since 1990. Consultant psychiatrist Montreal Neurological Institute, 1968-1971. Visiting professor psychiatry Medical University of Charleston, SC, 1977-1978.

Achievements

• Zbigniew Jerzy Lipowski has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Delirium: Acute Confusional States

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  • Delirium: Acute Confusional States by Zbigniew J. Lipowski (1990-03-01)

Membership

Fellow Royal College Physicians Canada, American Psychiatric Association (life, taskforce on nomenclature 1975-1979, Special Presidential Commendation 1987), Academy Psychosomatic Medicine. Member American Psychosomatic Society, Polish Institute Arts and Sciences in American.

Connections

Zbigniew married Dr. Barbara Lipowski. Children, Christopher John, Anna Christina.

Mother:

Zofia (Szeliski) Lipowski

child:

Anna Christina Lipowski

child:

Christopher John Lipowski

spouce:

Dr. Barbara Lipowski

References

• The-Theory-of-Attractive-Stimulus-Overload
  1970
• Viruses, Immunity, and Mental Disorders In spite of progress in biomedical research, we know little about the causes, prevention, and treatment of the numerous mental and neurological disorders that afflict up to 15% of all individuals. In the last decade, great advances have been made in the physiopathology of mental and neurological disorders, leading to at least a partial control of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, certain psychoses, and anxiety syndromes. Despite the fact that an underlying specific neurotransmitter deficiency has been demonstrated in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, the immune dysfunction and viral hypotheses continue to be attractive for investigators dealing with these degenerative diseases of the aging brain, which afflict 10% of senior citizens. A retrospective epidemiologic study suggests that the encephalitis lethargica and parkinsonism were almost certainly caused by the 1918 influenza virus pandemics. It must be stressed that the etiopathogenesis of many mental disorders is not known, and this ignorance has led to several untenable neurophysiological and biochemical hypotheses. Epidemiologic investigations show a high prevalence of functional psychoses and organic mental disorders. Although many of them are conceptualized as biopsychosocial disorders, recent data indicate that the biological component appears more and more as a major etiologic factor. Among the various biological hypotheses, the viral and im­ munologic concept has become a significant one. In view of recent discoveries in virology and immunity, it becomes clear that viral and immunologic hypotheses should be inves­ tigated more systematically concerning the mechanisms of numerous mental and neu­ rological disorders.
  1987
• Delirium: Acute Confusional States Now in a completely rewritten version, this definitive work covers all aspects of delirium, a frequent complication of physical illness, especially in the elderly. Unique in its range of coverage, the book traces the history of delirium from the 5th century B.C. to the present, and offers detailed discussions of its clinical features, diagnosis, pathophysiology, etiology, and treatment. This new edition fully reflects the substantial progress in understanding the disorder made over the last decade. Delirium will be very useful to geriatricians, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians as it offers detailed practical guidance on diagnosis and management of the disorder. The only English-language monograph on this subject, it contains over 2,300 references.
  1990
• "Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry, Selected Papers" Revised Edition
  2011
• Psychosomatic Medicine: Current Trends and Clinical Appliations Psychosomatic Medicine: Current Trends and Clinical Appliations [Z. J. Lipowski, Don R. Lipsitt, Peter C. Whybrow] - Medicine: Current Trends and Clinical Appliations
  1977
• Affluence, information inputs and health - ScienceDirect ScienceDirect The writer presents a set of hypotheses about the relationship between symbolic stimuli provided by the social environment, their psychological effects, and consequent changes in health. It is proposed that various aspects of the stimulus or information input are a significant intervening variable linking the social environment and the individual's psychosomatic functioning. In particular, information input overload in its several forms is postulated to characterize affluent technological societies and have deleterious effects on psychological and physiological processes. Diverse research findings are reviewed which support the contention that psychosocial stress in general, and information-derived stress in particular, may bring about increased susceptibility to all types of illness. It may do so by virtue or repeated and/or sustained states of physiological arousal disturbing the body's homeostatic mechanisms and exceeding its current adaptive capacity. It may also lead to behavior inimical to health. These hypotheses, and especially the role of information overloads, await validation by future research. Yet the role of social stimuli as contributing factors to morbidity in the highly complex, affluent technological societies appears to be established.
  1967