Abstract

The origins of molecular psychiatry.

Highlights

  • In 1987, Ron Duman and I were setting up our new laboratories in CMHC, the Connecticut Mental Health Center, a state mental hospital jointly run by the State of Connecticut and Yale University

  • As Duman and I were setting up our new labs, we decided to name our corridor “The Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry,” and we had the gumption to post a huge sign with this new name, which we had made at a local photocopying store, without any permission from our higherups

  • The 1980’s marked the dawn of the molecular revolution in medicine and we all believed that brain diseases that manifest themselves in behavioral abnormalities would prove to be no different from diseases of all other organ systems, namely, that psychiatric disorders have fundamental molecular lesions that need to be identified and understood and, with that knowledge, reversed or prevented

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Introduction

In 1987, Ron Duman and I were setting up our new laboratories in CMHC, the Connecticut Mental Health Center, a state mental hospital jointly run by the State of Connecticut and Yale University. As Duman and I were setting up our new labs, we decided to name our corridor “The Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry,” and we had the gumption to post a huge sign with this new name, which we had made at a local photocopying store, without any permission from our higherups.

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