Albert Lasker Award
for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Key Publications of Seymour Kety

Kety, S.S. and Schmidt, C.F. (1948) The nitrous oxide method for the quantitative determination of cerebral blood flow in man: theory, procedure and normal values. J. Clin. Inv. 27: 484–492.

Kety, S.S. (1951) The theory and applications of the exchange of inert gas at the lungs and tissues. Pharm. Rev. 3: 1–41.

Kety, S.S. (1959) Biochemical theories of schizophrenia; a two-part critical review of current theories and of the evidence used to support them. Science 129: 1528–1532, 1590–1596.

Landau, W.M., Freygang, W.H., Rowland, L.P., Sokoloff, L., and Kety, S.S. (1955) The local circulation of the living brain; values in the unanesthetized and anesthetized cat. Trans. Am. Neur. Assn. 80: 125–129.

Kety, S.S. (1961) The academic lecture: The heuristic aspects of psychiatry. Am. J. Psy. 118: 385–397.

Kety, S.S., Wender, P.H., Jacobsen, B., Ingraham, L.J., Jansson, L., Faber, B., Kinney, D. (1994) Mental illness in the biological and adoptive relatives of schizophrenic adoptees: Replication of the Copenhagen study in the rest of Denmark. Arch. Gen. Psy. 51: 442–455.