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Updated May
19, 2007
Jerry Cott, Ph.D., is a
researcher,
writer, lecturer, and scientific consultant for conventional
and complementary
health care and academia. He has lectured at major universities and international meetings for more
than
25 years. His research interests include psychotherapeutic drug development and the treatment
of mental disorders by the rational use of conventional drugs and/or
nutritional
(essential
fatty
acids) and botanical (e.g. hypericum, ginkgo,
kava, valerian) supplements. A
current specialty is herb-drug
interactions. He has more than 80 scientific
publications and was most recently Chief of
the Psychopharmacology Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH. Jerry has also done research in the pharmaceutical
industry and currently reviews new drugs with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
(FDA). Pictured below is Jerry's mentor (Nobel Laureate, Prof. Arvid
Carlsson)
and Jerry.
 
The
Future of Medicine?
"Treat disease through diet, by preference, refraining
from
the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do
not resort to a compounded medicament..."*
* from a tablet to a physician (ca. 1885) in: Bahá’u’lláh
and the New Era
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