Finding Aid for the Arthur Yuwiler Papers Biomed.0455
Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
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Title: Arthur Yuwiler papers
Creator:
Yuwiler, Arthur
Source:
Yuwiler, Alice
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0455
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1956-2012
Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Alice Yuwiler, June 2015, May 2016.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7654899
Administrative/Biographical History
Yuwiler (1927-2012), who received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1956, served as Chief of the Neurobiochemistry Research Laboratory,
West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center; was a member of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
and of the Brain Research Institute; and was a founding member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Publications, laboratory notebooks, files, correspondence, presentations, and microscope slides which document Dr. Arthur
Yuwiler's research on tryptophan metabolism, and serotonin and melatonin relations to stress, autism, and violence, as well
as schizophrenia research with Ralph W. Gerard.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Yuwiler, Alice