Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific sites in the brain and spinal cord where such drugs as opium and morphine act. These and other recent discoveries open up the possibility of aiming artificial drugs at specific receptors, and perhaps duplicating the body's natural internal "drugs" that help keep normal people normal. Says Solomon Snyder, a psychiatrist and pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University: "As a result of psychopharmacology, psychiatry has come from behind the other medical sciences to a position of leadership. We've got a whole new psychiatry...
...Julian Snyder (International Moneyline...
Sharing the $15,000 prize were Dr. Hans Kosterlitz of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Pharmacologist John Hughes of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and Dr. Solomon Snyder of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University...
...Snyder and his co-workers discovered in 1973 that the nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced...
...enkephalins appear also to affect emotions. In mapping receptor sites Snyder found that the amygdala, a small portion of the brain that has no known role in physical pain but plays a major part in regulating the emotions, is unusually rich in opiate receptors. Thus variations in the number of receptors, or in the concentration of enkephalins?or the presence of narcotics?at these sites may affect emotions and behavior. Said Kosterlitz at the Manhattan award presentation: "The discovery of the enkephalins resembled the opening of Pandora's box, hopefully this time for the benefit of mankind...