Kety, Seymour Solomon

Kety, Seymour Solomon
▪ 2001

      American psychiatrist (b. Aug. 25, 1915, Philadelphia, Pa.—d. May 25, 2000, Westwood, Mass.), was the 1999 recipient of an Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award for his contributions to the study of schizophrenia—he classified it as a disease rather than the result of bad parenting and found that genetic factors could predispose members of a family to the disease—and for developing during the 1940s and early '50s a quantitative technique for monitoring blood flow to the brain, an innovation that led to the birth of positron emission tomography scanning. Kety, who earned his M.D. (1940) from the University of Pennsylvania, conducted research there before being named the first scientific director of what became the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. From 1967 to 1983 he was affiliated with Harvard University.

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