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Judd, Lewis Lund

Judd, Lewis Lund

(1930–  ) psychiatrist, educator; born in Los Angeles. An authority in the fields of biological psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology, he was the first active scientist named director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (1988). There he promoted research into schizophrenia, child and adolescent mental disorders, and brain function.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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