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                  <text>Doowber 21. 1985

Dr. Em”: A. Rodin

Lafayette Clinic
951 E. Lafayette

Detroit, Michigan um?

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difficult to write a letter with regard to

mine objective.

Dr. Tammi Dante-whim

Dr. Ilmta

joined

the Institute mom thm a your and a half ago upm application
and follwing the mmdatim of the Chairm’ of his
Deon-mm. After he arrived we fomd duet there were my
problem in ooummioation which we mot-dud to a lmguage
barrier. Since we have had to deal with scientists from
we have. in most instmoes, been
many natimal wwable to msolvo this difficulty. However, with Dr. Me,
I believe the dammioatim is still. hummus.
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to establish an evoked
Itil and I wereOuranxious
instructions and

Wtime

potmtiel laboratory.
to replicate arm of the studies of males Shegass, to
asoemain integrity of our equipmt. For more than four
nmths Dr. Dmta carried out my trials and multiple placements in the scalp finally reporting that the amalitudes
in the clearest evoked potentials were recorded in the
looetims reported by curled. While this was an imrtmt
confimatim, his inflexibility heralded similar difficulties
in the following year.
His principal project was mleted to the evoked potential
at mltiple doom: of intmmoue pentothel (l, 2, u rag/kg).
'me study was well done and the results were well analyzed.

were

In the absence of concurrent

EEG

of stages of sleep,
moms
manuscript which he

w. Itil and I moamnded that the
submitted be edited by the deletion of references to sleep
(until fwther studies using EEG criteria for sleep could be
done). Dr. Ikuta refused to make my modifications of his
report and insisted on its presentation without modification.
This issue boom e oeuse oelebm with ugly overtones of
aoademio

freedm.

�Dr. Rodin

Decanter 21, 1965

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sinoeJune

At this point I would no larger swervise him and
his dismissal. mexpectedly, his @90th had already been

mmfom,beminﬁ:eneparment
Wadmm,
Wemwisimlmdnotonwingwtmrkwimmyather
scientists.
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appmadmd to
While oﬂ'ner

oollabomtewith m. Dmta.
have been willing to do so.
As

mad

itiamymdemtandingﬂmtm

is mimlouo and diligem'. He
stodwithmeequipmtforthiakindofwrk

a laboratory manicin: he

hasbecomwell
has

have been

while he hm

ted kmwledge of the inherenteleotrmioe

beenebletomywtﬂnemrimto verymll.

he

Partially became of language and partially because of
tends to isolatim. I would have little hesitation
pemality hehim
in appointing
in my siﬁatim in which the responsibilities
mddutiesmmdeclearinwritingbefordmd, forlbelieve
thathis personality is euchthethe’will acmemtotln liteml
intemmtatim of my unmet in whid: he participates. Our om
difficulties have been muted to the misinterpmtstim of the
role relationships of supervisor md swervisee, for he has
imam-ted the appointment here of resend: follow as equivalent
to a: individual research scientist. I do not believe that the
adversityhasbeenwillingtoaooepthiepositimmdwhile I

donotlmouforafect, Ithinkﬁwthiaappointmentwillnothe

We! in June.

‘

Fimllly. I mink Dr. Ikuta is m’musual man who could
probably fmction in a specific most satisfactory way in some
laboratory (pumps yours) provided the rules of the game
were written out in detail.
'

MybestmgaxdsendﬂastWiahes fortheNowYeer.
Sincerely yours,

Pm, my.
Professor of Psychiatry

Hex
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9.8. Incidentally, Paul Winger presenteda fine

mportofhis

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Yo”: Medical
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look

foam! to establishing anther laboratory for Quantitative psycho-

miclogioalmendx.

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