Awards & Winners

Henri Laborit

Date of Birth 21-November-1914
Place of Birth Hanoi
(Vietnam)
Nationality France
Henri Laborit was a French physician, writer and philosopher. Laborit was born in Hanoi, French Indochina and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957. Laborit later became a research head at Boucicault Hospital in Paris. His interests included psychotropic drugs, eutonology, and memory. He pioneered the use of dopamine antagonists to reduce shock in injured soldiers. His observation that people treated with these drugs showed reduced interest in their surroundings led to their later use as antipsychotics. He was also the first researcher to study GHB, in the early 1960s. He hoped that it would be an orally bioavailable precursor to the neurotransmitter GABA, but it proved to have other uses and was later discovered as an endogenous neurotransmitter.

Awards by Henri Laborit

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1957


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For his extensive studies of surgical shock and post-operative illness which resulted in the first application of chlorpromazine as a therapeutic agent.)