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...also encourage the students to pursue neuroscience research within the Biology and Psychology Departments. Northwestern has a "Neuroscience Program" designed for students to major in the field (if accepted) or to focus their existing Psychology or biology majors with seminars, research and a set sequence of courses. As Dr. Routtenberg, head of Northwestern's program, explained, "Most importantly, it is a way to make students aware" of the field of neuroscience. Stanford University has a major called Human Biology, one of the two largest majors, which incorporates a very wide selection of courses having to do with "the human organism...
Once able to locate the brain's opiate receptors, scientists can use their new strategies to draw a biochemical map of all the other neurotransmitters and to learn how chemicals plug into the brain. At Northwestern University, Aryeh Routtenberg is studying the chemical pathways of the brain's reward system, which when stimulated produces sensations of pleasure. If schizophrenics are indeed on a dopamine "high."; their internal reward systems may be constantly turned on. His University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various...
...able to adjust them by administering the appropriate drugs. Harvard's Dr. Seymour Kety insists that such tactics are far from mind control: "You can't manipulate an individual's behavior in the way the popular mind would like to think." But Northwestern's Routtenberg is not so sure. Says he: "These techniques are extremely powerful. Some day we're going to have to have a mind SALT talk...
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