Discoverer of Stress Syndrome in Seminar

              Thursday, March 9, 1967 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES
Here April 21 "
Discoverer of Stress
Syndrome in Seminar
The Department of Psychiatry
of Confederate Memorial Medical
Center, and the Department of
Postgraduate Medicine of LSU
School of Medicine, will present
an all-day seminar on "The Role
of Stress in Psychiatry and
Coronary Artery Disease" on
Friday, April 21, in the first-floor
auditorium at Confederate.
The featured speaker will be
Dr. Hans Selye, professor and
director of the Institute of
Experimental Medicine and Sur-gery,
Universit' de Montreal,
Montreal, Canada.
An internationally recognized
authority on the "Stress Syn-drome,"
Dr. Selye received his
doctor of medicine from German
University of Prague, Czechoslo-vakia,
in 1929, and his doctor of
philosophy in organic chemistry
from the same university in 1931.
In 1942, he received his doctor of
science degree from McGill
University, Montreal, Canada. In
addition to his three earned
doctorates, he has received hon-orary
degrees from Universities
of Argentina, Canada, Chile,
Germany, Guatemala, Japan,
Uruguay and the USA. He was
appointed to his present position
in 1945.
Dr. Selye discovered the first
evidence for his stress theory in
1936. After many painstaking
attempts at finding the causes of
a seemingly unimportant obser-vation,
his perseverance brought
him success and he provided
medical science with the general
adaptation syndrome. He discov-ered
that in this syndrome the
body's defense mechanism goes
through the three f o l l o w i n g
stages: (1) The alarm reaction
of the organism to any nocuous
agent; (2) the "adaptive" state;
and (3) the exhaustion stage
which arises if the nocuous
situation lasts too long, causing
the hormonal defense system to
collapse.
In his earlier years of re-search,
he was given a great
deal of encouragement by, and
through, association with the
noted Canadian scientist and
discoverer of insulin, Sir Freder-ick
Banting, who was responsible
for his first financial support—a
modest grant of $500.
Because of his great contribu-tion
to medical science, Dr.
Selye has received medals and
awards from countries such as
Canada, the U.S.A., England,
Czechoslovakia, Ecuador,
France, Switzerland. Argentina,
Mexico, Japan, Belgium,
U.S.S.R., Cuba, Sweden and
Italy.
The author of more than 1,200
publications, including 22 books,
Dr. Selye is a member of the
editorial board of scientific jour-nals
in countries throughout the
world.
The morning session of the
seminar will begin at 9 a.m. with
welcoming remarks by Dr. Erie
W. Harris Jr., chief of the
psychiatric staff of Schumpert.
Dr. Selye will then speak on
'Psychiatry and Stress." This
will be followed by a panel
discussion.
Members of the panel, in
'addition to Dr. Selye, will include
Dr. Walter C. Bruschi, chief of
the psychiatry service, VA Hos-pital;
Dr. W. A. McBride
assistant clinical professor o
psychiatry, LSU School of Medi
cine, and chief of the visiting
psychiatric staff of Confederate
and Dr. Robert F. Shannon
associate professor of psychiatry,
and director of the Adolescent
Psychiatric Clinic, University of
Arkansas School of Medicine,
Little Rock, Ark. Moderator for
the morning session will be Dr.
Karr Shannon Jr., assistant
clinical professor of psychiatry,
LSU School of Medicine, and
head of the department of
j psychiatry of Confederate Memo-rial
Medical Center.
The afternoon session will
begin at 2 o'clock, with a talk
by Dr. Selye on "Stress and
Coronary Artery Disease." A
panel discussion will follow.
Members of the afternoon
panel will be Dr. Selye; Dr.
Edgar Hull, professor of medi-cine,
LSU School of Medicine,
and interim dean, Shreveport
School of Medicine; Dr. James
R. Hughes, chief of the medical
service, VA Hospital; and Dr.
Charles S. Betts, associate pro-fessor
of psychiatry and supervi-sor
of psychosomatic medicine.
University of Arkansas School of
Medicine, Little Rock.
The afternoon session will be
sponsored by the psychiatry
service of the local Veterans
Administration Hospital, and will
be moderated by Dr. Sherman
Allis, chief of staff of that
hospital.
The seminar is expected to
attract widespread interest from
psychiatrists, internists and car-diologists
from throughout Loui-siana,
Arkansas and Texas.