Larry J. Seidman (March 23, 1950 – September 7, 2017) was an American neuropsychologist who served as a professor of psychology at

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starting in 2004, and as vice chair for research in the Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division at

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starting in 2005. His research focused on the

neuropsychology Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Professionals in this branch of psychology focus on how injuries or illnesses of the brai ...

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of Non-communicable disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

and

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

. On September 7, 2017, he died suddenly of a

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at the age of 67. Since 2018, the International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) has awarded the annual Larry J. Seidman Award for Outstanding Mentorship in his honor.

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* 1950 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American psychologists American neuropsychologists American clinical psychologists City College of New York alumni Boston University alumni Harvard Medical School faculty {{US-psychologist-stub