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13.02.2019 | Psychiatry and Preclinical Psychiatric Studies - Review Article
Dopamine in psychiatry: a historical perspective
verfasst von:
Paul Bernard Foley
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neural Transmission
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Abstract
Dopamine is the principal transmitter of several central nervous system pathways originating in the midbrain and critically involved in motor activity, learning and motivation, disruptions of which have been implicated in a number of disorders, including Parkinson disease and schizophrenia. Dopamine played a particularly significant role in the history of neurochemistry. Following a series of investigations between 1957 and 1965, commencing in the laboratory and completed in the clinic, the significance of chemical neurotransmission for normal CNS function was first demonstrated in the case of dopamine.