Albert Barrett Neuroscience Lecture

 About Albert M. Barrett, M.D. (1871 - 1936)

Albert M. Barrett

Albert Moore Barrett was born in Austin, Illinois, July 14, 1871. Barrett married Eliza Jane Bowman of Clinton, IA, July 8, 1905; they had one son (Edward Bowman). Albert Barrett received his BA (1893) and his MD (1895) from the State University of Iowa. After his medical school training, Barrett was pathologist at the Iowa State Asylum for the Insane at Independence (1895-1897), then assistant physician at the Massachusetts State Hospital for the Insane at Worcester where he worked under the supervision of Adolf Meyer (1897-1898). Between 1898 and 1906, with a break to pursue additional training, Barrett was the pathologist at the Danvers Insane Hospital in Massachusetts. Between 1900 and 1902, Barrett did post-graduate training in psychiatry in Germany with such luminaries as Emil Kraepelin. He was assistant in neuropathology in the Harvard University Medical School (1905-6), but in 1906 was appointed by the University of Michigan to be Associate Professor of Neuropathology, Director of the Psychopathic Ward, and Pathologist of the State Asylums. In 1907, Barrett became Professor of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Between 1920 and his sudden death in 1936, Barrett was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Albert Barrett was the first Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan. 

Barrett was involved in a variety of professional organizations, and was active on many national committees. Barrett was a member of the Medical Council of U.S. Veterans Bureau, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psycho-Pathological Association (president 1923-34), the Central Neuro-Psychiatric Association (president 1925), the American Neurological Association (president 1935-36), Nu Sigma Nu, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Omega. He was president of the APA at an important and formative time of its history (1921-22). At one time, Barrett was the chairman of the Committee on Statistics for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Barrett also helped to found the Michigan Society for Mental Hygiene in 1920, as well as the Detroit Society for Neurology and Psychiatry. In his lifetime, he published and presented over 35 papers (including works published in journals such as the American Journal of Medical Sciences, American Journal of Insanity, Journal of Mental and Nervous Diseases, Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry).

The 30th Annual Albert Barrett Lecture

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Kent Berridge, Ph.D., M.A.

Liking vs Wanting in Brain Reward Circuitry: From Laboratory to Clinical Applications”

Past Lecturers

 

2022
Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D. - "Thinking Differently about Modeling Anxiety"

2021
Marina Picciotto, Ph.D. - "Cholinergic Mechanisms Involved in Stress-Related Behaviors"

2020
Catherine S. Woolley, PhD [cancelled due to COVID]

2019
Jack M. Parent, M.D. 
"Using Human Stem Cells and Brain Organoids to Explore Genetic Epilepsies and Neurodevelopmental Disorders"   

 

2018
Catherine Dulac, Ph.D.
“Neurobiology of Social Behavior Circuits”

2017
David Van Essen, Ph.D.
Topic: Neurobiology of Addiction

2016
George Koob, Ph.D.
"Neurobiology of Addiction: A Stress Surfeit Disorder"

2014
John H. Krystal, M.D.

2013
Huda Akil, Ph.D.
"The Depressed Brain: Here Lies the Winter of our Discontent"

2012
René Hen, Ph.D.
“Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Impact on Mood and Cognition”

2011
Helen Mayberg, MD

2009
Shitij Kapur, MBBS, PhD, FRCPC

2008
Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D.

2007
Michael J. Meaney, Ph.D.

2006
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.

2005
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.

2004
Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D.

2003
Thomas R. Insel, M.D.

2002
Donald L Price, M.D.

2001
Eric J. Neslter, M.D., Ph.D.

2000
Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D.

1999
Edward Smith, Ph.D.

1998
Edward G. Jones, M.D., Ph.D.

1997
Larry Squire, Ph.D.

1996
Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.

1995
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Sc.D.

1994
Arvid Carlsson, M.D., Ph.D.

1993
William Greenough, Ph.D.

1992
Gerald Edelman, M.D., Ph.D..

1991
Floyd Bloom, M.D.

1990
Solomon Snyder, M.D.