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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Title: Murray E. Jarvik papers
Collection number: BIOMED.1102
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
60.0 linear ft.
(61 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1923-2008
Abstract: Murray E. Jarvik (June 1, 1923 - May 8, 2008) was a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests included effects of drugs on learning and
retention, the neurophysiological basis of learning, drug effects in the central nervous system, psychopharmacology, primate
behavior, smoking behavior and addiction. He is best known for recognizing nicotine as the addictive factor in cigarette smoking
and being a co-inventor of the nicotine patch. Jarvik was also passionate about the possibility of legalizing illicit narcotics.
Half of the collection contains research studies, including protocols, data and grant applications. The other half of the
collection contains nicotine patch legal documentation, correspondence, materials in relation to professional organizations,
several talks and lectures, and reference materials.
Physical location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All materials are stored off site and require advance notice for use.
Please contact History and Special Collections for the Sciences, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, 310.825.6940,
to arrange for use.
Creator:
Jarvik, Murray E.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All materials are stored off site and require advance notice for use.
Please contact History and Special Collections for the Sciences, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, 310.825.6940,
to arrange for use.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Processing Note
Processed by Daniella Perry in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli
and in consultation with curator Russell Johnson, October 2011.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Murray E. Jarvik papers (Collection BIOMED.1102). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and
Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography/History
Murray E. Jarvik (June 1, 1923 - May 8, 2008) was a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his BS from the City College of New York (1944), an
MA from UCLA (1945), his MD from UCSF (1951), and his PhD from UC Berkeley (1952). He held numerous teaching and research
assignments in psychology and psychopharmacology from 1944 to 2000, with the bulk of his career taking part at UCLA Department
of Psychology concurrently with the VA offices in Brentwood, Los Angeles. He was a member of various professional organizations
including: American Academy of Neurology, American Association of the Advancement of Science, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
American Psychological Association (President of Division 28, psychopharmacology), American Psychopathological Association,
and others.
Jarvik is best known for recognizing nicotine as the addictive factor in cigarette smoking and being a co-inventor of the
nicotine patch, the highest income-producing property of the UC Regents intellectual property portfolio for several years.
Yet Jarvik's research legacy is vast. He initiated work on LSD, memory and learning in aging humans, psychopharmacology, the
role of nicotine in smoking, and the effect of psychoactive drugs on cognitive functioning. Jarvik began with animal studies
in the 1950s, looking at the effects of psychoactive drugs on primate behavior. His early research was focused on evaluating
the usefulness of behavioral science techniques for measuring changes in cognitive and social behavior induced by psychoactive
drugs. He sought the collaboration with others interested in nicotine and advocated for a synchronized computer system to
share data.
In the 1970s, Jarvik became increasingly interested in drug abuse, addiction and the effects of nicotine. Subjects for the
study were taken from the Brentwood VA Hospital in Los Angeles, thereby giving Jarvik sample populations in both addiction
and aging. He became a specialist in addiction and addictive behavior and sought to understand the neuro-chemical underpinnings
of cognitive dysfunction. He developed techniques for measuring aspects of reinforcement with questionnaires and instrumentation;
as well as techniques for measuring anxiety, arousal, attention, aggression and appetite which are affected by smoking.
Jarvik served as a consultant for mental health institutes and centers, journal magazines, and was passionate about national
drug policy and the possibility of legalizing illicit narcotics. Jarvik lead meetings and conferences panels this controversial
topic for over 20 years. Jarvik created permanent facilities to continue research in these areas. He had funding from the
United States Department of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Veteran's Administration Central
Office, the American Cancer Society, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies. By the end of his career, he published
nearly 300 articles, editorials and book chapters.
Scope and Content
The first half of the collection contains research studies files which include study protocols, study data and study correspondence.
There are numerous grant applications in the collection which further elaborate on the scope and relevance of each research
study. This part of the collection is restricted, as study participant information is contained in the data files. The collection
also contains several files regarding the nicotine patch invention and relevant legal documentation. This is also restricted.
The other half of the collection contains correspondence files, documentation relating to various professional organizations,
and reference materials. Reference materials refer to both journal articles written by Jarvik and reprint articles by other
researchers.
Biographical information, for which there is little, can be found in the first few folders of Box 1, and in a few correspondence
files in Boxes 50 and 51. The collection contains roughly half of the articles written by Jarvik, arranged in chronological
order by decade. There is a CV located in the first folder of Box 56 that contains a partial list of numbered published articles.
Of note in the collection are the extensive and emphatic materials devoted to drug legalization, including essays delivered
at conferences and correspondence to high-ranking congressional committees and economists, including Milton Friedman. The
last two boxes of the collection contain four instructional, audiovisual reference materials (film strip and vinyl record)
from 1970 regarding different classes of drugs.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Biographical
- Research Studies
- Grants, Proposals, and Protocols
- Nicotine Patch and Patent Documents
- Correspondence
- Professional Organizations and Conferences
- Talks and Lectures
- Reference Materials
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jarvik, Murray E.---Archives.