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From UCLA: Obituary: Paul Satz Obituary: Paul Satz, 77, psychiatry professor, founder of UCLA neuropsychology program By Mark Wheeler June 25, 2010 UCLA Paul Satz, a UCLA professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and the founder of the neuropsychology program at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, died June 20, in Lihue, Hawaii, after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. One of the founders of the discipline of neuropsychology, Satz was widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on brain–behavior relations. During his tenure at UCLA (1981–2002), he established the UCLA Neuropsychology Program and helped turn it into one of the world's largest and most successful training programs for clinical neuropsychologists. The author of more than 300 publications, Satz's scientific contributions to the understanding of normal and abnormal brain development had — and continue to have — a major imp...

Here is a webpage from the University of Florida ( click here ) that will be of interest to neuropsychologists, if only because it includes some cool photographs (as a profession, neuropsychology seems to be on the slim side when it comes to available photographs of persons and places). Enjoy graduate school and early-career pictures and stories of some fine neuropsychologists! And, as an added treat, some additional photographs ( click here ) of a fine neuropsychologist and his friends and colleagues, posted online by one of them.