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| 2004 Tutorial: History of Behavioral Pharmacology |
| Sunday, May 30, 2004 |
| 1:30 PM–2:20 PM |
| Grand Ballroom |
| Area: BPH; Domain: Applied Research |
| None CE Offered. CE Instructor: Amy Odum, Psy.D. |
| Chair: Amy Odum (Utah State University) |
| Presenting Authors: : JOSEPH V. BRADY (John Hopkins University, School of Medicine) |
| Abstract: Although interest and concern with the behavioral effects of drugs can be traced back some 25 centuries to Homers 500 BC reference in The Odyssey to the effects of alcohol and opium, the emergence of behavioral pharmacology as a scientific discipline has very much paralleled the basic and applied development of behavior analysis over the past half century. The best way to track the development of a scientific field is through the academic research centers that are the source of its trained professionals and it is in this important regard that both the methodological and substantive contributions of B. F. Skinner are most noteworthy. There were of course a number of seminal events as well as somewhat fortuitous circumstances that shaped the discipline in strange and wonderful ways, but the influence of substance abuse with its myriad basic and applied permutations cannot be underestimated. The generous support provided of late for both drug abuse research and treatment has greatly enhanced the opportunities for advancing both experimental and applied behavior analysis. As in all of our behavior analytic endeavors however, the field of behavioral pharmacology faces its greatest challenges in the transition from the controlled confines of the experimental laboratory to an endemic substance abuse natural ecology. |
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| JOSEPH V. BRADY (John Hopkins University, School of Medicine) |
 Dr. Joseph V. Brady completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1951, launching a highly influential career spanning five decades and several research areas. Dr. Brady is regarded as one of the founders of modern behavioral pharmacology, and his 1956 paper on drug effects on emotional behavior as a pioneering paper in the field. In 1951, he went to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to join one of the first interdisciplinary neuroscience research teams and serve important directorial roles. In the late 1950s, Dr. Brady received an early grant from the National Institute for Mental Health to establish the first Behavioral Pharmacology Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, where his first postdoctoral fellow, Travis Thompson, and his first PhD student, Charles R. Schuster, discovered that monkeys would self-administer drugs. In 1967, Dr. Brady became a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he founded the Division of Behavioral Biology in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Among numerous other awards, he is the 2004 winner of the P. B. Dews award recognizing outstanding lifetime achievements in research, teaching, and professional service in the field of behavioral pharmacology from the American Scientific Society for Pharmacologists. |
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