Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887–1968) was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States".
Cobb's childhood and education were affected by his stammer, which it is suggested led him to study the neurosciences in an attempt to understand its cause. He married Elizabeth Mason Almy in 1915.
Cobb studied at and later went on to work for the Harvard Medical School. In 1925 he was named Harvard's Bullar...
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Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887–1968) was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States".
Cobb's childhood and education were affected by his stammer, which it is suggested led him to study the neurosciences in an attempt to understand its cause. He married Elizabeth Mason Almy in 1915.
Cobb studied at and later went on to work for the Harvard Medical School. In 1925 he was named Harvard's Bullard Professor of Neuropathology.
In 1922, Cobb was asked to discover why patients with epilepsy had improved when they were starved. He recruited William Lennox as an assistant to investigate the ketogenic diet that had been proposed as being as effective as starvation in the treatment of epilepsy.
In 1930, he was appointed director of the newly opened Harvard Neurological Unit at Boston City Hospital. When Cobb moved to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1934, he was succeeded by Tracey Putnam. Cobb built the department of psychiatry at the...
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