Conan Kornetsky
1926-2018
Psychologist and pharmacologist who studied LSD and behavior with Murray Jarvik at Mount Sinai in the 1950s, later a long-serving professor at Boston University.
Conan Kornetsky trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Kentucky (PhD 1952) and joined NIMH studies of heroin addiction at the U.S. Public Health Service hospital in Lexington. In 1953–54 he worked with Murray Jarvik at Mount Sinai on the effects of LSD on behavior, and he appears in Margaret Mead’s LSD memo as one of Harold Abramson’s “two young men.”
In 1959 he moved to Boston University School of Medicine, where he spent the rest of his career; in the 1970s he developed a method for measuring the threshold of rewarding brain stimulation.
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Notes and references
- “In Celebration of Conan Kornetsky,” International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology.
- College on Problems of Drug Dependence, profile of Conan Kornetsky.