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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
Jeff Goldberg
其他書名
The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine
出版
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
, 2013-09-01
主題
Health & Fitness / Pain Management
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Science / Experiments & Projects
Medical / Pain Management
ISBN
1628734264
9781628734263
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xS51EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The story of endorphins—the body’s own morphine.
“Fascinating.” --
The New Yorker
The exciting story of the race to discover endorphins—opiate-like chemicals in the brain—and their links to:
drug addiction
runner’s high
appetite control
sexual response
mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia
In late 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz spent the majority of their time in an underfunded, obscure, and cramped laboratory in Aberdeen, Sweden. While working on the brains of pigs, the duo discovered a nonaddictive narcotic chemical that they hoped to later find in human brains. If they could isolate this chemical in humans, perhaps they could find a way to help the world begin to heal itself. Hughes and Kosterlitz’s research would inevitably lead them to discover endorphins, the body’s own natural morphine and the chemical that makes it possible to feel both pain and pleasure.
Announcing their findings to the scientific world thrust Hughes and Kosterlitz in the spotlight and made them celebrities. Soon, scientists all over the world were hastily examining the human brain and its endorphins. In a few years’ time, they would use the team’s initial research to link endorphins to drug addiction, runner’s high, appetite control, sexual response, and mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.
In
Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
, Jeff Goldberg describes Hughes and Kosterlitz’s lives before, during, and after their historic and scientific breakthrough. He also takes a look at the bigger picture, revealing the brutal competition between drug companies to find a way to cash in on this monumental discovery.