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ARVID CARLSSON
https://doi.org/10.1142/9781860946844_0033Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
Per Arvid Emil Carlsson (b. 1923 in Uppsala, Sweden) is an Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 with Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system". In 1958, Dr. Carlsson and his colleagues identified dopamine in brain and proposed its agonist function in the control of psychomotor activity. He and his graduate students discovered the distribution of dopamine in the brain and proposed a role for dopamine in Parkinson's disease. Dr. Carlsson has made numerous other discoveries in pharmacology…
