Abstract
Dr. Robert Heath, former chairman and founder of the combined Department of Psychiatry and Neurology of the Tulane Medical School, died September 24, 1999, at his home in Florida, of intractable heart failure. Dr. Heath infused the department with his philosophy that the disciplines of psychiatry and neurology had an inherent unity that could and should not be divided. He believed that the brain is the organ of behavior and that human behavior is a consequence of CNS activity. During the 1940s and 1950s, the discipline of psychiatry was primarily concerned with classifying disordered behavior and psychoanalysis was its most effective treatment. Dr. Heath maintained that an adequate understanding of mental illness would be found in altered brain neurochemistry and neurophysiology, and that appropriate treatment would be based on this foundation. During the …
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