Word: neuropharmacologist
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None of this means Spitzer was a blameless victim of chemistry. Sometimes hubris is just hubris. But humans habituate to thrills, which means needing more and more to get the same buzz. "You want to re-create the high, so you up the ante," says neuropharmacologist Candace Pert. And as Spitzer learned, when you risk everything, you can lose...
...that this is often not the case. Some preliminary studies on depression, for example, suggest that hormonal changes in many women may lead to a premenstrual deepening of depression. Further research on appropriate doses of antidepressants throughout the menstrual cycle is needed, says Dr. Jean Hamilton, a Washington-based neuropharmacologist, to determine if female patients are getting adequate medication...
...laboratories around the world, medical researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from reality, intuition from fact, belief from science. Much of this work centers on the actions of neuropeptides, molecular messengers that travel through the body linking the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. In the 1970s neuropharmacologist Candace Pert at the National Institute of Mental Health found that these peptides bind to receptors on a cell, beginning a cascade of biomedical effects, including protein synthesis and cell division. "It's like ringing a doorbell. All kinds of reactions happen inside," says Pert. "The whole metabolism...
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