Elliot Valenstein

Elliot S. Valenstein, PhD, (born December 9, 1923 in New York City) is a professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan.^[1][2] He is a noted authority on brain stimulation and psychosurgery.

Published books

• Brain Control: A Critical Examination of Brain Stimulation and Psychosurgery (1973)

• Brain Stimulation and Motivation: Research and Commentary (Ed.) (1973)

• Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of psychosurgery and other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness (1986)

• Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health (1998)

• The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute over how Nerves Communicate (2005)

See also

• Biopsychiatry controversy
• Chemical imbalance theory
• Psychiatric drugs

References

External links

• Faculty Page at University of Michigan
• StayFreeMagazine.org - 'Better Living Through Lobotomy: What can the history of psychosurgery tell us about medicine today? An Interview with Elliot Valenstein', Allison Xantha Miller (Fall, 2003)