Samuel Barondes, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

415-476-7066

Samuel Barondes has an AB and an MD from Columbia University, and was trained in clinical medicine and psychiatry at several Harvard teaching hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, McLean, and Massachusetts General). He learned to do research in molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health. Thereafter, Barondes devoted himself to applying the new biological sciences to psychiatry.

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He has been a professor at the University of California since 1970, first at its San Diego campus and, since 1986, at its San Francisco campus, where he was, for seven years, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute.

Dr. Barondes is author of more than 200 original research articles. He is a member or fellow of many professional societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has also held national leadership positions, including chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Mental Health and president of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. In 2000 he was the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer in Los Alamos.

In addition to his research publications, Dr. Barondes has written several books for a general audience: Molecules and Mental Illness (1993); Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression (1998); Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs (2003); and Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (2011).

Awards

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  • 14th Annual Holly Smith Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2013
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  • Chair, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institutes of Health, 2000-2003
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer, Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, Los Alamos, 2000
  • Member, Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine), 1990
  • J. Elliott Royer Award in Psychiatry, University of California, 1990
  • President, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, 1989-1998
  • Herman Stillmark Lectin Centennial Medal, University of Dorpat (Tartu, Estonia), 1988
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985
  • Fogarty International Scholar, National Institutes of Health, 1979

Education & Training

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  • Psychiatry residency McLean Hospital 1966
  • Postdoctoral research National Institutes of Health 1963
  • Postdoctoral training Medicine Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1960
  • M.D. School of Medicine Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1958
  • A.B. Columbia College 1954

Interests

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  • psychopharmacology
  • neuroscience
  • psychiatric genetics
  • Personality structure

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (196)

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GalactosidesLectinsDictyosteliumNeurosciencesMusclesFungal ProteinsGalectinsMyxomycetesBirdsGangliaLactoseProtozoan ProteinsBiological PsychiatryVocalization, AnimalHemagglutinins

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