Pierre Flor-Henry (March 1, 1934 – May 29, 2024) was a Canadian psychiatrist, researcher, lecturer, and professor.
Edin) (1966) presenting the thesis "Psychosis and temporal lobe epilepsy" [1] from the University of Edinburgh.
Subsequent degrees and specializations were earned from the University of London, in the United Kingdom and in Quebec, Canada.
Flor-Henry’s general medicine practice took him through Western, Central, and Eastern Canada from 1958 to 1963.
Returning to the United Kingdom, he specialized in psychiatry, epilepsy, electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology at the Maudsley Hospital (1963-1968).
In 1993 Flor-Henry undertook the Directorship of the Clinical Diagnostics and Research Centre (CDRC), Alberta Hospital Edmonton.
[2] Much of Pierre Flor-Henry’s clinical and research is conducted in the CDRC which he established and directed.
The CDRC is dedicated to offering clinical psychophysiological and neurophysiological assessments that contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
The philosophy of the CDRC is to provide continuous improvement in the provision of assessment and treatment services through fundamental research and program evaluation.
The CDRC provides a variety of tests of brain activity that is unique to a psychiatric facility in its breadth and scope.
Other assessments include recordings of autonomic nervous system modalities such as skin conductance and digital pulse volume.
The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada awarded the Clinical Diagnostics and Research Centre full accreditation status as an electroencephalography and evoked potential neurophysiology laboratory.
More recently, Flor-Henry has engaged in multi-channel EEG investigations using source localization (LORETA) in a variety of psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, mania, depression, multiple personality, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and transsexualism.
The publication and presentation of Flor-Henry’s findings from 1969 onwards has triggered an enormous amount of research internationally, on laterality and psychopathology.
Flor-Henry’s research has extended his early findings to the study of the patterns of cerebral disorganization in a variety of mental disorders with neuropsychological and quantitative EEG approaches: e.g. in depression, schizophrenia, mania, psychopathy, sexual deviation, hysteria, multiple personality, obsessive compulsive disorder, and, in normal controls (task, age, and gender effects).
In addition to his extensive empirical research, he has written, edited, and published a number of books integrating the findings in these areas along with theoretical reviews on the implications of disrupted lateral hemispheric organization in psychiatric conditions.
In 2007, Flor-Henry was named the 2007 recipient for the Career Contribution Award from the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society.
Psychosis, neurosis, and epilepsy: Developmental and gender related effects and their aetiological contribution.
EEG characteristics of normal subjects: A comparison of men and women and of dextrals and sinistrals.
Observations, reflections and speculations on the cerebral determinants of mood and on the bilaterally asymmetrical distributions of the major neurotransmitter systems.
Variant Sexuality: Research and Theory, Croom Helm Ltd., London & Sidney: 49–83.
Electrodermal dissociation of chronic fatigue and depression: Evidence for distinct physiological mechanisms.
A source-imaging (low-resolution electromagnetic tomography) study of the EEGs from unmedicated males with depression.
A source-imaging (low-resolution electromagnetic tomography) study of the EEGs from unmedicated males with schizophrenia.