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Author Schulkin, Jay

Title Curt Richter : a Life in the Laboratory / Jay Schulkin
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages) : illustrations
Contents Origins and orientation -- Biological clocks and spontaneous behaviors -- Ingestive behaviors and the internal milieu -- A psychobiological perspective on the domesticated and the wild -- Panama: neurobiological investigations and clinical applications -- An artisan in the laboratory
Summary In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated theoretical arguments, choosing instead to apply his data-collection methods, innovative measurement techniques, playful sense of exploration, and consummate surgical skill to laboratory examinations of the biological basis of behavior. From identifying the biological clocks that govern behavior and physiology to observing the self-regulation of nutrient levels by the body, the cyclical nature of some mental illnesses, and the causes of hopelessness, Richter's wide-ranging discoveries not only influenced the burgeoning field of psychobiology and paved the way for later researchers but also often had implications for the treatment of patients in the clinic. At the time of his death in 1988, Richter left behind a massive collection of laboratory data. For this book, Jay Schulkin mined six decades of Richter's archived research data, personal documents, and interviews to flesh out an engaging portrait of a "laboratory artisan" in the context of his work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-178) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Richter, Curt Paul, 1894-1988.
SUBJECT Richter, Curt Paul, 1894-1988
Richter, Curt Paul, 1894-1988
Richter, Curt Paul, 1894-1988 fast
Subject Psychobiology, Experimental -- Maryland -- Biography
Psychology.
Biological rhythms.
Behavior -- physiology
Psychology
Biological Clocks
psychology.
Psychology
Biological rhythms
Psychobiology, Experimental
Maryland
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004017268
ISBN 9781421427652
1421427656
9780801880735
0801880734
1421429373
9781421429373