Word: d2
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wali says she believes customers are trying to "buy their childhood memories. They come in and say, `Oh, boy, R2-D2...
...study, researchers examined brain samples from some 70 cadavers; half of the subjects had been alcoholics and half had not. The scientists were looking for the so-called dopamine D2 receptor gene, which affects the | capacity of cells to absorb dopamine, one of the brain's chemical transmitters. This gene was one of several suspects that researchers speculated might be an underlying cause of alcoholism. The scientists were amazed to find that the gene was present in 77% of the alcoholics and in only 28% of the nonalcoholics. The association was "surprisingly strong," said Dr. Enoch Gordis, head...