Subject: A Master Regulator in the Brain...and more

From: "The Scientist" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:38:41 -0000

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A Master Regulator in the Brain

How a single protein was found to link schizophrenia and depression to drugs of abuse and addiction

In the early 1980s, a search for brain proteins that might be involved in communication between nerve cells turned up a 32-kilodalton protein-kinase substrate with some remarkable properties. Our group had been working under the assumption that the signaling pathways that regulate synaptic transmission might resemble the signaling pathways working elsewhere in the body, particularly the endocrine signaling involved in the breakdown of glycogen in muscle and liver

By Per Svenningsson and Paul Greengard

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Meeting of the Minds

37 recommendations Europeans came up with when they gathered to talk about brain science

By Tinne Vandensande, Michael Rogers, and Stef Steyaert, on behalf of the Meeting of Minds Steering Committee

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Bird Flu Madness

We must step up to counter the misinformation that is destroying poultry markets

By Jack Woodall

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