Wallace B. Mendelson

Wallace B. Mendelson is an American psychiatrist and author, working primarily in the fields of sleep research and psychopharmacology. He most recently worked at the University of Chicago as a professor of psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and the director of the school's Sleep Research Laboratory. He is the author of thirteen books and numerous papers in the fields of sleep science and pharmacology.

Wallace B. Mendelson
Wallace B. Mendelson giving a lecture in New York, 2018
Born1945 (age 77–78)
EducationMD from Washington University in St. Louis
Occupations
Medical career
Institutions
Research

Education

Mendelson earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from the University of Texas at Austin. He then went on to Washington University in St. Louis where he earned his Doctor of Medicine in 1969. He completed his residency in psychiatry and taught at Washington University.[1]

Career

After Washington University, in 1975 Mendelson took a position at the Intramural Program of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland where he was the Chief, Section on Sleep Studies until 1987.[2][3] While with the NIMH, Mendelson published two books: Human Sleep and Its Disorders (1977)[4] and The Use and Misuse of Sleeping Pills (1980).[5] After the NIMH, Mendelson became the director[6] of the Center for the Study of Sleep and Waking at the State University of New York at Stony Brook[7] and held a professorship there.[8] He also published his third book while at Stony Brook called Human Sleep: Research and Clinical Care in 1987.[9] In 1994, he was named the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.[10]

From 1997 to 1998, Mendelson served as the President of the Sleep Research Society.[11] He began working at the University of Chicago[12] as a professor of psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and the director of the Sleep Research Laboratory.[8] He retired from full-time university work in the early 2000s and has subsequently been writing, consulting, and in the part-time practice of general psychiatry.[13][14] During his tenures at Stony Brook, the Cleveland Clinic, and The University of Chicago, he set up three accredited fellowship training programs in sleep medicine.[15] Since 2017, Mendelson published a number of books, including The Science of Sleep,[14] Understanding Antidepressants,[16] Understanding Sleeping Pills,[17] Understanding Medicines for Anxiety,[18] The Curious History of Medicines in Psychiatry,[19] Molecules, Madness, and Malaria,[20] Nepenthe's Children,[21] Trial by Fire,[22] Fragile Brilliance,[23] The Psychoanalyst and The Nazi Nobelist [24] and The Battle Over the Butterflies of the Soul.[25]

Research

Mendelson is known for basic science studies elucidating the effects of inverse agonists of the benzodiazepine receptor,[26] the actions of endogenous ligands for benzodiazepine receptors,[27] and the role of the medial preoptic area in pharmacologic sleep induction.[28] At a human research level he characterized differences in regulation of growth hormone secretion during sleep and waking,[29] effects of drugs on the perception of being awake or asleep,[30] the interaction of sleep and depression,[31] and the clinical properties of sleep-inducing medicines.[32] Mendelson has been described as a "pioneer in the field of sleep research and sleep medicine, and is a well-respected psychiatrist, scientist, and sleep educator."[33] In 2022 he was designated a ‘Living Legend in Sleep Research’ by the journal Sleep Advances[34] in which he published a history of his work, memories of colleagues and mentors, and thoughts for the future.[35]

Bibliography
Year Title Original publisher ISBN Notes
1977 Human Sleep and Its Disorders Plenum Press ISBN 978-1468422917 Co-written with J. Christian Gillin and Richard Jed Wyatt
1980 The Use and Misuse of Sleeping Pills Plenum Medical Book Company ISBN 978-0306403705
1987 Human Sleep: Research and Clinical Care ISBN 978-0306426278
2017 The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters University of Chicago Press ISBN 978-0226387161
2018 Understanding Antidepressants Independent ISBN 978-1980438298
Understanding Sleeping Pills ISBN 978-1718039988
2019 Understanding Medicines for Anxiety ISBN 978-1075931802
2020 The Curious History of Medicines in Psychiatry Pythagoras Press ISBN 978-0578637877
Molecules, Madness, and Malaria: How Victorian Fabric Dyes Evolved into Modern Medicines for Mental Illness and Infectious Disease ISBN 978-0578697208
Nepenthe's Children: The History of the Discoveries of Medicines for Sleep and Anesthesia ISBN 978-1735334318
2021 Trial by Fire: World War II and the Founders of Modern Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology ISBN 978-1-7353343-7-0
Fragile Brilliance: The Troubled Lives of Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson and other Great Authors ISBN 978-1-7353343-6-3
2022 The Psychoanalyst and The Nazi Nobelist: The Curious Story of Sigmund Freud and Julius Wagner-Jauregg ISBN 978-1-7353343-5-6
2023 The Battle Over the Butterflies of the Soul: Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and The Birth of Neuroscience ISBN 978-1-7353343-8-7

References
  1. "Class Notes" (PDF). Washington University in St Louis.
  2. "Drugs and Insomnia: The Use of Medications to Promote Sleep". National Institutes of Health. November 15, 1983. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  3. Mendelson, Wallace B.; Sack, David A.; James, Steven P.; Martin, Joseph V.; Wagner, Richard; Garnett, Debra; Milton, John; Wehr, Thomas A. (June 1987). "Frequency analysis of the sleep EEG in depression". Psychiatry Research. 21 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1016/0165-1781(87)90067-9. PMID 3615694. S2CID 35058749.
  4. Mendelson, Wallace B.; Gillin, J. Christian; Wyatt, Richard Jed (1977). Human Sleep and Its Disorders. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 9781468422894.
  5. Mendelson, Wallace B. (1980). The Use and Misuse of Sleeping Pills. New York: Plenum Medical Book Company. ISBN 978-0306403705.
  6. Mendelson, Wallace B. (April 17, 1990). "The Stony Brook 600 the Experience of a Sleep Disorder Center". Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. 2 (4): 277–283. doi:10.3109/10401239009147957.
  7. Mendelson, Wallace B. (1993). "Pharmacologic Alteration of the Perception of Being Awake or Asleep". Sleep. 16 (7): 641–646. PMID 8290858. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  8. "What Leads to Anxiety Disorders?". The Daily Mind. July 26, 2019. Archived from the original on November 10, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  9. Mendelson, Wallace B. (1987). Human Sleep: Research and Clinical Care. New York: Plenum Medical Book Company. ISBN 978-0306426278.
  10. "Class Notes" (PDF). Outlook Magazine. October 1994. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  11. "Past Presidents". Sleep Research Society. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  12. Mendelson, Wallace B. (March 1998). "Effects of time of night and sleep stage on perception of sleep in subjects with sleep state misperception" (PDF). Psychobiology. 26 (1): 73–78. doi:10.3758/BF03330594. S2CID 141772952. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  13. Saul, Stephanie (October 23, 2007). "Sleep Drugs Found Only Mildly Effective, but Wildly Popular". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  14. Neubauer, David N. (May 8, 2018). "The Science of Sleep: What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters by Wallace B. Mendelson, M.D." Sleep and Vigilance. 2 (1): 95. doi:10.1007/s41782-018-0039-8.
  15. Wills, Chloe C A; Grandner, Michael A (June 10, 2019). "Review of The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters". Sleep. 42 (8). doi:10.1093/sleep/zsz104. ISSN 0161-8105.
  16. Mendelson, Wallace B. (2018). Understanding Antidepressants. Independent. ISBN 978-1980438298.
  17. "Understanding Sleeping Pills". Sleep Review. August 9, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  18. "(Review) Understanding Medicines For Anxiety by Wallace B. Mendelson MD". Impressions in Ink. July 22, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  19. "The Curious History of Medicines in Psychiatry". Good Reads.
  20. "Molecules, madness, and malaria". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  21. "Nepenthe's Children". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  22. "Trial by Fire". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  23. Fragile Brilliance. September 24, 2021 – via amazon.com.
  24. Mendelson, Wallace B. (April 3, 2022). The Psychoanalyst and the Nazi Nobelist: The Curious Story of Sigmund Freud and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. Pythagoras Press.
  25. Mendelson, Wallace B. (2023). The Battle Over the Butterflies of the Soul. Pythagoras Press. ISBN 978-1-7353343-8-7.
  26. Mendelson, W.B.; Cain, M.; Cook, J.M.; Paul, S.M.; Skolnick, P. (January 1, 1982). "Do benzodiazepine receptors play a role in sleep regulation? Studies with the benzodiazepine antagonist 3 hydroxymethy lBcarboline (3-HMC)". Progress in Clinical and Biological Research. 90: 253–261. PMID 6287492.
  27. Mullen, K.D.; Maftin, J.V.; Mendelson, W.B.; Jones, E.A. (1988). "Further evidence that hepatic encephalopathy in the galactosamine rabbit model may be mediated by an endogenous benzodiazepine compound". Excerpta Medica: 333–337.
  28. Mendelson, W.B. (February 16, 2001). "The sleep-inducing effect of ethanol microinjection into the medial preoptic area is blocked by flumazenil". Brain Research. 892 (1): 118–121. doi:10.1016/s0006-8993(00)03243-1. PMID 11172756. S2CID 37076489.
  29. Mendelson, W.B.; Jacobs, L.S.; Gillin, J.C.; Wyatt, R.J. (October 1979). "The regulation of insulin induced and sleep related human growth hormone secretion". Psychoneuroendocrinology. 4 (4): 341–349. doi:10.1016/0306-4530(79)90017-9. PMID 42940. S2CID 39714378.
  30. Mendelson, W.B. (October 1993). "Pharmacologic alteration of the perception of being awake or asleep". Sleep. 16 (7): 641–646. PMID 8290858.
  31. Gillin, J.C.; Mendelson, W.B.; Kupfer, D.J. (1988). "The sleep disturbance of depression: clues to pathophysiology with special reference to the circadian REM rhythm". Biological Rhythms and Mental Disorders: 27–54.
  32. Mendelson, W.B. (November 1995). "Subjective vs. objective tolerance during chronic administration of triazolam". Clinical Drug Investigation. 10 (5): 276–279. doi:10.2165/00044011-199510050-00004. S2CID 73070537.
  33. Wills, Chloe C A; Grandner, Michael A (August 2019). "Review of The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters". Sleep. 42 (8). doi:10.1093/sleep/zsz104. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  34. "Sleep Advances, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2022".
  35. Mendelson, W.B: 'Looking back at a life in sleep research—and some thoughts for the future'. Sleep Advances, Vol. 3 (1), 2022. (September 12, 2022). "doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac031". Sleep Advances : A Journal of the Sleep Research Society. 3: zpac031. doi:10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac031. PMC 10104403. PMID 37193401. Retrieved January 3, 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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