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43498
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Joseph Zubin Award, American Psychopathological Association
  • 2013 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2013 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2001 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • 2001 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Irving I. Gottesman was affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their career was marked by contributions recognized by several notable awards within the field of psychology and psychopathology.

Throughout their professional life, they received multiple awards, including the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association in 2014. They were also honored with the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology by the University of Louisville and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, both awarded in 2013.

In earlier years, Gottesman was recognized with the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, granted by the American Psychological Association in 2001. That same year, they also received the Joseph Zubin Award presented by the Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Additional distinctions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996 and receiving a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1972.

Best Publications

  • The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions

    Irving I. Gottesman;Todd D. Gould

  • Autism as a strongly genetic disorder: evidence from a British twin study.

    A. Bailey;A. Le Couteur;I. Gottesman;P. Bolton

  • Schizophrenia Genesis: The Origins of Madness

    Irving I. Gottesman

  • Socioeconomic Status Modifies Heritability of IQ in Young Children

    Eric Turkheimer;Andreana Haley;Mary Waldron;Brian D'Onofrio

  • A Polygenic Theory of Schizophrenia

    Irving I. Gottesman;James Shields

  • Twin studies of schizophrenia: from bow-and-arrow concordances to star wars Mx and functional genomics.

    Alastair G. Cardno;Irving I. Gottesman

  • Schizophrenia and genetics : a twin study vantage point

    Irving I. Gottesman;James Shields

  • Heritability Estimates for Psychotic Disorders: The Maudsley Twin Psychosis Series

    Alastair G. Cardno;E. Jane Marshall;Bina Coid;Alison M. Macdonald

  • Schizophrenics Kill Themselves Too: A Review of Risk Factors for Suicide

    Constance B. Caldwell;Irving I. Gottesman

  • DNA methylation profiles in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

    Zachary A. Kaminsky;Thomas Tang;Sun Chong Wang;Sun Chong Wang;Carolyn Ptak

  • Attention, Memory, and Motor Skills as Childhood Predictors of Schizophrenia-Related Psychoses: The New York High-Risk Project

    L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling;Donald Rock;Simone A. Roberts;Malvin Janal

  • Confirming unexpressed genotypes for schizophrenia: risks in the offspring of Fischer's Danish identical and fraternal discordant twins

    Irving I. Gottesman;Aksel Bertelsen

  • A broader phenotype of autism: the clinical spectrum in twins.

    Ann Le Couteur;Anthony Bailey;Susan Goode;Andrew Pickles

  • Psychiatric endophenotypes and the development of valid animal models.

    T. D. Gould;I. I. Gottesman

  • Deconstructing Schizophrenia: An Overview of the Use of Endophenotypes in Order to Understand a Complex Disorder

    David L. Braff;Robert Freedman;Nicholas J. Schork;Irving I. Gottesman

  • Genetic theorizing and schizophrenia.

    Irving I. Gottesman;James Shields

  • Phenotypic differences in genetically identical organisms: the epigenetic perspective

    Albert H.C. Wong;Irving I. Gottesman;Arturas Petronis

  • Toward Constructing an Endophenotype Strategy for Bipolar Disorders

    Gregor Hasler;Wayne C. Drevets;Todd D. Gould;Irving I. Gottesman

  • Early hormonal influences on cognitive functioning in congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

    Susan M. Resnick;Sheri A. Berenbaum;Irving I. Gottesman;Thomas J. Bouchard

  • An international two-stage genome-wide search for schizophrenia susceptibility genes.

    H.W. Moises;L. Yang;H. Kristbjarnarson;C. Wiese

  • Just one g: consistent results from three test batteries

    Wendy Johnson;Thomas J Bouchard;Robert F Krueger;Matt McGue

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Matt McGue University of Minnesota
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John P. Rice Washington University in St. Louis
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh
Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer University of Virginia
Fabio Macciardi
Fabio Macciardi University of California, Irvine
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Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar University of Pittsburgh
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
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Raymond C.K. Chan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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