Erminio Costa

Erminio Costa (1924, Cagliari, Italy - 2009, Washington, D.C., USA) was a neuroscientist. His research interests covered brain serotonergic activity in health and disease, benzodiazepine-GABA interactions, benzodiazepine action at GABAA receptors, and GABAergic dysfunction and changes in the expression of reelin and GAD67 in schizophrenia. He published more than 1000 articles.

Career

 * July, 1947 - M.D. 110/110 cum laude, University of Cagliari, Italy
 * 1950-1960 - Thudichum Psychiatric Research Laboratory, Galesburg Research Hospital, Galesburg, Illinois
 * 1960-1965 - Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at NHLI - NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
 * 1965-1968 - Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY
 * 1968-1985 - Chief of the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology, NIMH, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC
 * 1985-1994 - Director and Founder, Institute of Neuroscience, and Professor of Pharmacology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
 * 1994-1995 - Director, Center for Neuropharmacology, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York University, New York, NY
 * 1995 - Scientific Director, Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 * 1982 - Member, National Academy of Sciences
 * 1991 - Member of "Accademia dei Lincei" founded by Galileo Galilei in 1602, Rome

Books

 * Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology (1969)
 * Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the Basal Ganglia (1966)
 * Biochemistry of Simple Neuronal Models (1970)
 * Neurosteroids and Brain Function (1991)
 * The Endorphins - Vol. 18 (1985)