HOBSON, J(ohn) Allan

HOBSON, J(ohn) Allan. American, b. 1933. Genres: Psychiatry, Bibliography. Career: Certification as diplomate by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1968; physician licensed in Massachusetts. Bellevue Hospital, NYC, intern in medicine, 1959-60; Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, resident in psychiatry, 1960-61, 1964-66, senior psychiatrist, 1965-67, director of laboratory of neurophysiology, 1967, principal psychiatrist, 1967-, director of group psychotherapy training program, 1972-80; National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, clinical associate, 1961-63; Harvard Medical School, Boston, research associate in physiology dept, 1964-67, instructor in psychiatry, 1966-67, associate in psychiatry, 1967-69, assistant professor, 1969-74, associate professor, 1974, professor of psychiatry, 1978-, professor of psychiatry (neuroscience), 1983-, director of behavioral science teaching program, 1980-86. University of Lyon, special fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health, 1963-64; University of Bordeaux, visiting scientist and lecturer, 1973; Istituto di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi, Rome, visiting professor, 1983; Rockefeller Foundation, scholar in residence, Bellagio Conference and Study Center, 1987; MacArthur Foundation, health programs consultant, 1989-91, member of Mind-Body Interaction Network, 1992-; University of Messina, visiting professor, 1992-. Publications: (with R.W. McCarley) Neuronal Activity in Sleep: An Annotated Bibliography, 1971, 2nd ed., 1977; (ed. with M.A. Brazier) The Reticular Formation Revisited, 1979; (selector and author of intro.) States of Brain and Mind and Abnormal States of Brain and Mind, c. 1988; The Dreaming Brain, 1988; Sleep, 1989; The Chemistry of Conscious States, 1994; Consciousness, 1999; Out of Its Mind, 2001; The Dream Drug Store, 2001. Address: Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.