Nancy Coover Andreasen

(1938- ) born in Lincoln. Psychiatrist, educator, author, researcher in neuroscience and mental abilities, editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry, she authored The Broken Brain (Harper, 1984), and published cover article in Science, March 14, 1997; elected to 1984 Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1992, recipient of National Medal of Science in 2000. Consult Lincoln Evening Journal, November 14, 1974, p. 7 and Omaha World Herald, January 2, 2001, p. 13 and Who's Who in America, Vol 1 (2003) 122.

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