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Memorial service set for Seymour Kety

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A memorial service for Seymour S. Kety, Harvard Medical School professor of neuroscience emeritus, will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 10, at the Memorial Church. A reception will immediately follow the service.

Kety, who died peacefully on May 24 at the age of 84, was at the center of advances in understanding mental disorders. He was a key figure in the development of biological research in psychiatry and he trained several generations of leading mental health investigators.