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 Alan Baumeister
Professor, Chair
Biological Area
236 Audubon Hall,
Department of Psychology,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone:(225)-578-8745
fax:(225)-578-4125
abaumei@lsu.edu
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VITA.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
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BS, University of Alabama, 1976.
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MS, Peabody College, 1978.
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Ph.D.,Psychology, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, 1981.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuropharmacology; Biological Sciences Research
Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, January
1982 - May 1984.
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Assistant Research Scientist; Department of Medical Pharmacology
and Toxicology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University,
June 1984 - August 1985.
TEACHING (for syllabi see document center):
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The history of biomedical approaches to understanding and treating
mental disorders. My research focuses on developments in psychiatry
during the first half of the 20th century,including the psychopharmacology
revolution of the 1950s.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (for complete list see document center):
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Baumeister, A.A, (in press). Serendipity and the cerebral localization
of pleasure. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
- Baumeister, A.A, & Hawkins, M.F. (in press). The role of serendipity
in the ontogenesis of modern psychopharmacology. In: Munoz FL, Alamo
C (eds.), The History of Psychopharmacology.
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Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F .,& Francis J.L (in press).
History development of monoamine hypotheses of schizophrenia.
In: Munoz FL, Alamo C (eds.), The History of Psychopharmacology.
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Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F. (2005). Continuity and discontinuity
in the historical development of modern psychopharmacology. Journal
of the History of the Neurosciences, 14, 199-209.
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Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F. (2004). The serotonin hypothesis
of schizophrenia. A historical case study on the heuristic value
of theory in clinical neuroscience. Journal of the History of
the Neurosciences, 13, 289-303.
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Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F., Uzelac, S.M. (2003). The myth
of reserpine-induced depression: Role in the historical development
of the monoamine hypothesis. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences,
12, 207-220.
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Baumeister, A. A., & Francis, J. (2002). Historical development
of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. Journal of the History
of the Neurosciences, 11, 265-277.
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Baumeister, A. A. & Hawkins, M. F., (2001). Incoherence of
neuroimaging studies of attention deficit/hyperactivity disoder.
Clinical Neuropharmacology, 24, 2-10.
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Baumeister, A. A, (2000). The Tulane electrical brain stimulation
program. A historical case study in medical ethics. Journal of
the History of the Neurosciences, 9, 263-278.
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