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These images were text and illustrations for talks like a modern PowerPoint presentation. The first five folders contain slide masters for miscellaneous graphs and charts.

The grants files include more research grants than training grants.  These grant files were in Robin' s Office in Psychiatry in 1993 and are in rough alphabetical order. Minutes, memos, correspondence, ledgers and notes and grant proposals and reports make up the files. Some grant proposals and reports are in other series. In addition, the grant files for the Collaborative program on the Psychobiology of Depression contain reviewer's manuscripts for monographs that  came out of the study.

The Clinical Research Branch (National Institute of Mental Health finding) convened a conference that reviewed findings that patients with affective disorders have abnormalities in one or more neurobiological systems.  NIMH sponsored the development of a multi-research center, collaborative approach, to the study of the psychobiology of affective disorders from 1975-1986. St. Louis patients of this collaborative study of the psychobiology of depression were assigned the number 5.

Restricted files with patient information were shredded except for those in series 25.

During the 1950's schizophrenia was a major focus of Robins research. One initial paper from this patient study is: Robins, E., Croninger, A.B., Smith, K. and Moody, A.C., 1962. Studies on n?acetyl neuraminic acid in the cerebrospinal fluid in schizophrenia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 96(1), pp.390-391.

This series contains training materials such as manuals, syllabi and Robins own notebook ion neuropsychiatric diseases from 1949.

This letter contains patient information and is closed until 100 years from date, 2071.

These files contain employee / resident information and are closed until 80 years from date. The whole series will be open in 2073.

The series includes local Washington University School of Medicine IRB (Institutional Review Board) or Human Studies Committee minutes and correspondence, 1976-1989. The Neurobiology Committee documentation is for a shorter period. Robins was an active member of both committees.

As a senior faculty member, Eli Robins moderated professor's rounds, a Psychiatry department conference held weekly by a senior faculty member on the most interesting patient. Professor's rounds are an important teaching method for the clinical clerkship of the junior year for medical students and even now attended by residents and attending physicians. Eli Robins' professor's rounds notebooks contain patient information and are in in Series 23: Professor's Rounds. RESTRICTED FILE boxes 104-107. A few of the announcements in 1975-1976 contain patient information and have been removed to the RESTRICTED FILE box 104 as well.

The method and results of this study are reported in: Hicks, Fred, Eli Robins, and George E. Murphy. "Comparison of adinazolam, amitriptyline, and placebo in the treatment of melancholic depression." Psychiatry research 23, no. 2 (1988): 221-227. Amitriptyline was shown to be superior to adinazolam and placebo for treatment of melancholic depression.

Memorabilia include 11 certificates or plaques, desk nameplate, and academic hood.

This file contains patient information and is closed until 100 years from date. The file will be open in 2068.

Access to this series is restricted. Request redacted copy; originals closed until 2067. (arb@wusm.wustl.edu). These interviews are a random sample of initial and final interviews for a follow-up study of psychiatric emergency room patients. The files were in number order with the name of person interviewed and a number. These are diagnostic interviews and are restricted patient information. Findings are published in: Robins, Eli, Kathye A. Gentry, Rodrigo A. Munoz, and Sue Marten. "A contrast of the three more common illnesses with the ten less common in a study and 18-month follow-up of 314 psychiatric emergency room patients: III. Findings at follow-up." Archives of General Psychiatry 34, no. 3 (1977): 285-291.

These items contain patient names in one column but are a good summary of the data. Page with patient names in folder 1 might be copied with column covered. One initial paper from this patient study is: Robins, E., Croninger, A.B., Smith, K. and Moody, A.C., 1962. Studies on n-acetyl neuraminic acid in the cerebrospinal fluid in schizophrenia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 96(1), pp.390-391. Patient study files with initial and final interviews and lab data were shredded.

This complete set of Eli Robins' scientific publications is in chronological order. The reprint numbers are from: "Curriculum Vitae, Eli Robins, M.D. Date April 23, 1992," in the Eli Robins' vertical file. Each of the 4 bound volumes contains a table of contents.

These files were in Eli Robin' s personal office at the time of his death in 1995. This series contains correspondence concerning faculty appointments and awards. The general correspondence in this series is with friends, family and colleagues at Washington University. Publicity on Eli Robins contains major magazine articles and other publicity concerning Eli Robins.

This series contains the correspondence kept by Dr. Eli Robins and his secretary, Mary Lavazzi, in the later part of his career.  It is arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent.

This series contains patient study files of long term value removed from Series 15. The first three folders are the raw material for Murphy and Robins' study of adolescent suicide at Washington University. They illustrate Robins' technique of psychological autopsy, made famous in his book, The final days. The rest of the series contain raw material for a series of studies on hysteria done in the late 1940s at Pratt Psychiatric Institute. Especially interesting are the consultation notes on patients diagnosed with hysteria made by Dr. Mandel Cohen, Dr. James Purtell, and Dr. Eli Robins.