Joseph T. Coyle

Coyle was president of the Society for Neuroscience from 1991-1992 and the president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2001. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of General Psychiatry from 2001-2014.

Coyle is the current Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He became a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1990, a fellow of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Psychiatric Association. From 1991 to 2001, he was the Chair of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry, also at Harvard. Before beginning work for Harvard Medical School in 1991, Coyle was a professor of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, where he began in 1975, and was eventually named the Distinguished Service Professor of Child Psychiatry in 1985. During his clinical career Coyle established a basis combining neuroscience and clinical psychiatry studies, where he has contributed to the understanding of certain neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. His studies of these disorders lead him to the discovery of neurological mechanisms underlying diseases such as Huntingtons and Alzheimers.

Joseph grew up on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. As a child, Coyle showed a keen interest in how things worked. He attended a Jesuit high school and then went on to College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He spent a year at Sorbonne University in Paris, France before his final year at College of the Holy Cross. The summer after college, Joseph was a psychiatric orderly at a local community hospital. While at the local community hospital, the brother of one of Joseph’s friends was admitted into the hospital with his first episode of schizophrenic psychosis which came to be of high interest to him. Coyle attended Johns Hopkins and received his MD in 1969. Subsequently he completed an internship in pediatrics, followed by a residency in psychiatry from 1973 until 1976. During this time period, Coyle worked with Julius Axelrod, PhD, a Nobel laureate, known for his research on catecholamines, which include epinephrine and norepinephrine.

Joseph Thomas Coyle Jr. born in Chicago, Illinois (October 9, 1943), is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist that is known for his work on the neurobiology of mental illness, more specifically on schizophrenia. He is currently the Eben S. Draper Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He was President of the Society of Neuroscience from 1991–1992. [2] and also the president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2001, He is a member of the Institute of Medicine .