Ian Oswald (born 1929) is a retired sleep researcher and psychiatrist. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Academic career

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He was educated first in London and later in Belper, Derbyshire. In 1947, he became a medical student at Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a First Class Honours degree in the Part 2 Tripos in Psychology. He completed his clinical studies in Bristol and, when in the Royal Air Force, gained a knowledge of electroencephalography. He spent two years at Oxford, and for his research received the M.D. (Cambridge) in 1959. He became a lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine of Edinburgh University in 1959. In 1963 he was awarded the Gaskell Gold Medal in Clinical Psychiatry of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, and in the same year the degree of D.Sc. of Edinburgh University. In 1965-1967, on leave from Edinburgh, he established a Department of Psychiatry in the University of Western Australia. He became a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1971, and in 1977 was appointed to a personal Chair in Edinburgh University. In the 1980s in research with Kirstine Adam, he reported that the sleeping drug triazolam (Halcion), when taken nightly caused adverse mental effects by day[14]. This led on to 1991 when triazolam was banned in the United Kingdom because, as the Committee on Safety of Medicines said after studying further unpublished research by the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo (Halcion's manufacturers), "triazolam causes frequent and disabling psychiatric adverse reactions at doses of 0.5 and 1mg when used in a population of young and middle-aged patients with no mental illness". (The Daily Telegraph. October 2, 1991). In 1992, the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, the makers of Halcion, sued him in London for libel and he countersued in a 62-day trial[15] .

Personal life

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He is married to fellow sleep researcher, Dr Kirstine Adam, and has four children from his late wife. He is the father of Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics.

References

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  1. ^ Oswald, Ian (1960). "Discriminative responses to stimulation during human sleep". Brain. 83 (3): 440–453. doi:10.1093/brain/83.3.440. PMID 13731563. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Oswald, Ian (1960). "Falling asleep open-eyed during intense rhythmic stimulation". British Medical Journal. 1 (5184): 1450–1455. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5184.1450. PMC 1967279. PMID 14429345.
  3. ^ Oswald, Ian (1963). "Amphetamine and phenmetrazine addiction: physiological abnormalities in the abstinence syndrome". British Medical Journal. 2: 427–431. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5354.427. PMID 14159321. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Oswald, Ian (1965). "Five weeks to escape the sleeping-pill habit". British Medical Journal. 2 (5470): 1093–1099. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5470.1093. PMC 1846884. PMID 20790751. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Oswald, Ian (1966). Sleep. Penguin Books Ltd.
  6. ^ Oswald, Ian (1970). "Cyclical 'on demand' oral intake by adults". Nature (London). 225 (5236): 959–960. doi:10.1038/225959a0. PMID 5415136. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Haider, Ijaz (1970). "Late brain recovery processes after drug overdose". British Medical Journal. 2 (5705): 318–322. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5705.318. PMC 1700174. PMID 4317051. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ Dunleavy, Desmond.L.F (1973). "Phenelzine, mood response and sleep". Archives of General Psychiatry. 28 (3): 353–356. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1973.01750330045008. PMID 4347382. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Savin, John (1975). "Further studies of scratching during sleep". British Journal of Dermatology. 93 (3): 297–302. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1975.tb06495.x. PMID 172105. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Beck, Ulrich (1975). "Plasma growth hormone and slow wave sleep increase after interruption of sleep". Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 40 (5): 812–815. doi:10.1210/jcem-40-5-812. PMID 165220. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ Oswald, Ian (1980). "The man who had not slept for 10 years". British Medical Journal. 281 (6256): 874–875. doi:10.1136/bmj.281.6256.1684-a. PMC 1715682. PMID 7448571. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Adam, Kirstine (1983). "Protein synthesis, bodily renewal and the sleep-wake cycle". Clinical Science. 65 (6): 561–567. doi:10.1042/cs0650561. PMID 6194928. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ Oswald, Ian (1985). "On serious violence during sleep-walking". British Journal of Psychiatry. 147 (6): 688–691. doi:10.1192/bjp.147.6.688. PMID 3830330. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Adam, Kirstine (1989). "Can a rapidly-eliminated hypnotic cause daytime anxiety". Pharmacopsychiatry. 22 (3): 115–119. doi:10.1055/s-2007-1014592. PMID 2748714. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ Hooper, David (2000). Reputations under Fire. Winners and Losers in the Libel Business. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316648337.


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