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About Joel Elkes
- Joel Elkes (pronounced el' kez) (12 November 1913, Königsberg – 30 October 2015, Sarasota) was a leading medical researcher specialising in the chemistry of the brain.
- He qualified as a physician in London and later became a medical researcher who published the first double-blind scientific trial on chlorpromazine to treat schizophrenia.
- He is regarded as the father of modern neuropsychopharmacology and directed the first experimental psychiatric Uffculme Clinic in Birmingham, UK.
- He was responsible for the setting up of international organisations and university departments to further the investigation of the effects of psychopharmacy.
- He spent the latter part of his career endeavouring to bring higher levels of humanity, compassion and ethics to medical training.
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