Joseph V. Brady

Dr. Joseph V. Brady was a Behavioral Neuroscientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States. When at the Walter Reed Institute he performed an experiment called 'Ulcers in Executive Monkeys' that showed a link between stress and peptic ulcers. His research was significant in the development of stress being treated as a physical illness, and was influential in the development of Psychology and Neuroscience.

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After the launch of Sputnik his career to a shift. He became responsible for training the monkeys for the space program, most notably Ham who became the first Hominid in space, and rode aboard Wernher von Braun's ballistic missiles. The training of Ham was performed in a similar way to his earlier study on the Executive Monkeys, which was likely the reason he was chosen to train Ham and the other monkeys.

He founded both the Human Programmed Environment Research Laboratory and the Division of Behavioral Biology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He continued to work there for three decades, and received the P.B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology in 2004.