Louis A. Gottschalk

For the American composer, see Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Louis A. Gottschalk
Born (1916-08-26)August 26, 1916
Missouri, US
Died November 27, 2008(2008-11-27) (aged 92)
California, US
Fields Neuroscience
Institutions Washington University in St. Louis
US Public Health Service
Michael Reese Hospital
National Institute of Mental Health
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
University of Cincinnati
University of California, Irvine
Alma mater Soldan High School, St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Known for Gottschalk-Gleser Scales
Influences Carl Cori
Notable awards UCI Medal

Louis A. Gottschalk (August 26, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

Gottschalk earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1977.

He was the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine College of Medicine.

He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that Ronald Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to measure speech patterns in Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential debates.[1]

Gottschalk coinvented software that uncovered a link between childhood attention deficit disorder and adult addiction to alcohol and drugs. In 2004, at age 87, he published his last book, World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

In 2006, his son filed a suit alleging that Gottschalk had lost millions of dollars in a advance-fee scam.[2]

Gottschalk died at his home on November 27, 2008.

Bibliography

Selected books

Selected scientific articles

References

  1. John Needham (December 24, 1987). "UCI Study Calls Reagan Intellectually Impaired". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  2. William Lobdell (March 2, 2006). "UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
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