William T. Carpenter

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William T. Carpenter
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attempted assassination of President Reagan

William T. Carpenter is an American

mental illness, especially schizophrenia, to the prevention and treatment of which he has made significant contributions in psychopathology, assessment methodology, testing of new treatments, and research ethics.[1][9]

Early life

Carpenter was raised in

professional football on the same team as legendary quarterback Johnny Unitas. After talking to his family and his minister, Carpenter turned them down. The next year, the Colts won the Western Conference championship and went on to defeat the New York Giants in the first overtime game in National Football League history, often referred to as the "greatest game ever played". Carpenter went on to a career in medicine, devoting a 50-plus-year career to the understanding and treatment of severe mental illness.[2]

Medical career

Carpenter obtained his

affective disorders.[1]

In 1966, Carpenter took a psychiatric researcher position at the

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.[2]

Carpenter has served as Editor-in-Chief for

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychiatry Research, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Current Psychiatry Reports, and the CD-ROM version of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology publication Neuropsychopharmacology: Fourth Generation of Progress.[1]

His special professional assignments include service on the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program Board of Scientific Counselors and as a consultant and reviewer for NIMH and National Institutes of Health (NIH) on many topics.[9] He has chaired the NIMH Research Scientist Career Development Committee and the NIMH National Plan Committee on Treatment Research and has been funded as principal investigator for NIMH center grants from 1986 to 2013.[1] He is the only scientist to direct both an NIMH-funded Clinical Research Center (now Intervention Research Center) and an NIMH-funded Center for Neuroscience and Schizophrenia.[9]

He is a past-president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and participated in the founding of the

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, for which he has chaired its scientific program committee.[1]

Hinckley trial testimony

The trial of

not guilty by reason of insanity. Carpenter's testimony is credited with giving the field of psychiatry new credibility and increasing public awareness about severe mental illness.[2]

Honors and awards

Carpenter has been the recipient of 23 national and international research awards, was elected in 1998 to the

Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.[1][9]
and in 2019 received the SIRS Lifetime Achievement Award (Schizophrenia International Research Society) and the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation).

In addition to the U.S. Government v. John Hinckley case, Carpenter has provided expert testimony in the 1997 murder trial of

U.S. State Department delegation to inspect the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.[1][9]

He has authored over 400 clinical and scientific articles, books, and book chapters,[2] a select list of which can be viewed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Faculty Profiles website,[9] and is in the top 0.5% of authors cited in his field.[10]

References

Scholia has a profile for William T. Carpenter (Q8019043).
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j APA DSM-V Task Force Member Disclosure Report, William T Carpenter, MD, 5/2/2011, http://www.dsm5.org/MeetUs/Documents/Task%20Force%202011/Carpenter%204-28-11.pdf, accessed March 4, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Schizophrenia: Seeking Solutions (Dr. William T. Carpenter, Jr. focusing on study of schizophrenia), Bulletin of the Medical Alumni Association of the University of Maryland, Inc., Spring, 2001, http://www.medicalalumni.org/bulletin/spring_2001/lead1.html, accessed March 4, 2012.
  3. ^ "The Insanity Defense Has Little To Do With Science". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  4. ^ "Excerpt's from the Hinckley Trial". law2.umkc.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  5. ^ "Daily News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  6. ^ "Doctor Says Hinckley Sought Post-Life Union With Foster" in The [Palm Beach, Fla.] Post, Saturday, May 15, 1982, p. A6, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19820515&id=lQItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iM0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1239,2218102, accessed March 4, 2012.
  7. ^ The History Channel: The Plot to Kill Reagan, aired Thursday, March 30th, 2012, at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-plot-to-kill-reagan-on-the-history-channelr-55457887.html, accessed March 4, 2012.
  8. ^ "Schenectady Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  9. ^ a b c d e f University of Maryland School of Medicine Faculty Profiles: William T Carpenter M.D., http://medschool.umaryland.edu/facultyresearchprofile/viewprofile.aspx?id=2266, accessed March 4, 2012.
  10. ^ Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Research, formerly Thomson ISI, Institute for Scientific Information: The People Behind the World's Most Influential Research, http://highlycited.com/names/C.html, accessed 4 Jul 2013.
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