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Three teams of scientists at the Medical School, led respectively by Roger D. Spealman, professor of psychobiology, Bertha K. Madras, associate professor of psychobiology, and Jack Bergman, assistant professor of psychobiology, are using the primates to study how the behavioral symptoms of addiction are related to the neurochemical effects of the drug...
...Bergman said that primates are a good model for studying the effects of self-administration of drugs of abuse. He also said that drugs could be distinguished subjectively from placebos by primates...
...Bergman said that the results of their research so far may have several therapeutic uses, for cocaine addicts as well as victims of Parkinson's disease...
Drugs used during the research, many of which were similar in structure or chemical actions to cocaine, could be used to combat the effects of cocaine addiction, Bergman said, because such drugs block the dopamine signal, and thus the ability of cocaine to bind to the transport system...
Much has changed since then. For one thing, breast cancer is widely discussed. Celebrity after celebrity -- a veritable Breast Cancer Hall of Fame -- has stepped forward to demystify the disease and soften its stigma, beginning with Shirley Temple Black, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Ford, and more recently including Nancy Reagan and Gloria Steinem. Lessons on cancer detection and the importance of mammograms are the subject of elaborate public information campaigns...