Alan Baumeister, Professor
Office: 236 Audubon Hall
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Office Phone: (225)-578-8745
Email: abaumei@lsu.edu
Dr. Baumeister is not accepting new students at this time.
Research Interests
Historical epidemiology of mental illness
Education
BS, University of Alabama, 1976.
MS, Peabody College, 1978.
Ph.D.,Psychology, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, 1981.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuropharmacology; Biological Sciences Research Center, University
of North Carolina School of Medicine, January 1982 - May 1984.
Assistant Research Scientist; Department of Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology, College
of Medicine, Texas A&M University, June 1984 - August 1985.
Representative Publications
Baumeister, A.A.. Could Clinical Use of Stimulant Medications Increase Risk for Parkinson’s Disease or Other Neurological Sequelae? A Review of the Evidence. J of Pharmacol & Clin Res. 2017, 3(4): 555618. DOI: 10.19080/JPCR.2017.02.555618. Download pdf
Lee Pow J., Baumeister A.A., Hawkins, M.F., Cohen, A.S., Garand, J.: Deinstitutionalization
of American public hospitals for the mentally ill before and after the introduction
of antipsychotic medications. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2015, 23:176-187. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F., Lee Pow, J., Cohen A.S. Prevalence and Incidence
of severe mental illness in the United States: A Historical Analysis, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2012, 20: 247-258. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A. The Chlorpromazine Enigma. The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2013, 22, 14-29. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., Henderson, K., LeePow, J., Advokat, C. The early history of the
neuroscience of attention-deficity/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2012, 21: 263-279. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A. The search for an endogenous schizogen: The strange case of taraxein,
Journal of the history of the Neurosciences, 2011, 20: 106-122. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, López-Muñoz, F. Toward standardized usage of the word serendipity
in the histriography of psychopharmacology. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2010, 19, 253-270.
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Baumeister, A.A. Serendipity and the cerebral localization of pleasure.Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2006, 15, 92-98.
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Baumeister, A.A. & Hawkins, M.F. Continuity and discontinuity in the historical development
of modern of psychopharmacology, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2005, 14, 199-209. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., & Hawkins M.F. 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, 2004, 13, 289-303. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F., & Uzelac, S.M. The myth of reserpine-induced depression.
Role in the historic development of the monoamine hypothesis. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2003, 12, 207-220. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., & Francis, J. Historical development of the dopamine hypothesis
of schizophrenia, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2002, 11, 265-277. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A., & Hawkins, M.F. Incoherence of neuroimaging studies of attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 2001, 24, 2-10. Download pdf
Baumeister, A.A. The Tulane electrical brain stimulation program. A historical case
study in medical ethics. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2000, 9, 263-278. Download pdf