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...effective GABA booster. In epileptics, vigabatrin suppresses overactivated motor neurons that cause muscles to contract and go into spasm. Hoping that enhancing GABA in the brains of addicts could help them control their drug cravings, two biotech companies in the U.S., Ovation Pharmaceuticals and Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, are studying the drug's effect on methamphetamine and cocaine use. So far, in animals, vigabatrin prevents the breakdown of GABA so that more of the inhibitory compound can be stored in whole form in nerve cells. That way, more of it could be released when those cells are activated by a hit from...
...recognize that the world is not color-blind, and that a careful, self-conscious, and hyper-cautious level of procedural circumspection is sometimes necessary in order to guarantee fairness to those who “fit the description.” However, institutional action is but a potential catalyst to the social change that is really needed. On a diverse campus and in the prime of their intellectual and social lives, students of all colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations need to take the time to look into the faces of the other, greet someone who was once a stranger...
...fusion of the intellectual and the emotional. “Intellectualism for intellectualism’s sake is not how I personally want to live my life,” Sarkar told me in a recent conversation. “I think an education is meant to be a catalyst for working toward concrete improvements in society.” Sounds like pretty standard do-gooder stuff, right? Well, any amount of time with Sarkar will introduce you to a thoughtful person who is unafraid to challenge certain paradigmatic assumptions. “Social scientists and policymakers sometimes use data...
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...appropriate gift for the man who turned out to be the catalyst for the program’s final conception...