Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to the environment." Goodwin also points out gently that brain research has not yet produced any new treatments for mental disease. In fact, the only early result expected from the research is agreement of existing antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs to eliminate side effects. Ross Baldessarini, a psychiatrist and biochemist at the Mailman Research Center, warns that chemical cures can easily be oversold, like psychoanalysis and community psychiatry. Says he: "We are not going to find the causes and cures of mental illness in the foreseeable future...
Nevertheless, the research has been impressive enough to start a rush in the direction of psychopharmacology. People with titles like biochemist, psychobiologist, neurophysiologist and psychopharmacologist are attracting scarce federal funds and replacing traditional psychiatrists as chairmen of hospital psychiatry departments. The field offers what psychiatry seems to have been yearning for all through the 1970s: scientific expertise, medical underpinnings and an escape from the troublesome subjectivity of the human mind...
...researcher thinks he can explain how animals anticipate quakes. Writing in Nature, Biochemist Helmut Tributsch of the Max Planck Society's Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin says that animals can apparently sense, quite literally, that a quake is in the air. His theory: before the major shock hits, the earth releases such great masses of charged particles, or ions, that the atmosphere is almost alive with electricity. Such electrostatic activity, while discomforting enough to humans (it can cause headaches, irritability and nausea), may be more irritating to the delicate senses of many animals...
...point of the climb, according to University of California biochemist and expedition leader Arlene Blum, was to give women "the opportunity to participate from the very beginning in the organizing of an expedition because the leaders have always been men." The outcome--"I knew women could climb high mountains like this before I went and this reestablished...
...last week won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics, sharing half of the $165,000 award. The other half of the prize went to a Russian, Peter Kapitsa, 84, for his work in low-temperature physics. Also awarded last week was the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, given to British Biochemist Peter Mitchell, 58, for elucidating energy-producing processes in living cells...