Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Area: Biopsychology, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Psychology Office: 4025 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-763-4360
Email: esv@umich.edu

The primary foci of my research and scholarly activities are the physiological basis of emotion and motivation, the field of hormones and behavior, and the history of somatic treatments of mental illness.

Publications

More than 160 scientific articles (one of which has become a “Citation Classic”) and six of my books have been published, and several have been translated into different languages. These books include BRAIN CONTROL, the award winning GREAT AND DESPERATE CURES, and BLAMING THE BRAIN. My most recent book, THE WAR OF THE SOUPS AND THE SPARKS: THE DISCOVERY OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND THE DISPUTE OVER HOW NERVES COMMUNICATE, was published by Columbia University Press in 2005.

Honors and Awards

Numerous honors for research and publications include induction into the Academy of Science of Mexico, the Kenneth Craik Research Award from Cambridge University, England; the Outstanding Achievement in Psychology Award from The City University of New York; and an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Published Works. Elected to the Society for Experimental Psychologists in 1969 and was President of the Comparative and Physiological Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association in 1976-77. In 1992-93, selected by the faculty to be the Distinguished Senior Lecturer of the LSA College of the University of Michigan. In 1999, received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Behavioral Neuroscience from the International Society of Behavioral Neuroscience.

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