Seymour S. Kety, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Seymour S. Kety

American neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1915

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 25-May-2000

Profession: psychiatrist, university teacher, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Seymour S.
Kety (August 25, 1915 – May 25, 2000) was an American neuroscientist who was credited with making modern psychiatry a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine by applying basic science to the study of human behavior in health and disease.
After Kety died, his colleague Louis Sokoloff noted that: "He discovered a method for measuring blood flow in the brain, was the first scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and produced the most-definitive evidence for the essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia."