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Subject: Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist to Speak at UCSD

January 10

The following news release and any accompanying images can be accessed on the
web at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/greengard07.asp.

Media contact:  Debra Kain, [log in to unmask], 619-543-6163

January 4, 2007

Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist to Speak at UCSD January 10 

Dr. Paul Greengard, head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular
Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University and co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will speak at the University of California, San
Diego (UCSD) on Wednesday, January 10th at 11:00 a.m.

His lecture, "Signal transduction pathways used by therapeutic agents and drugs
of abuse," is sponsored by the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program and
Department of Pharmacology. The free lecture is open to the public, and will be
presented at Mandeville Auditorium on the UCSD campus in La Jolla.

Greengard, Eric Kandel and Arvid Carlsson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their
discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.  Greengard's
work has contributed to the understanding of how dopamine and a number of other
neurotransmitters - specialized chemical messengers that send signals from one
cell to another - work in the central nervous system.  Signaling abnormalities
by dopamine are associated with several neurological disorders, including
Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
and substance abuse.  

He has also shown that many of the therapeutic and toxic effects of several
classes of common antipsychotic, hallucinogenic and antidepressant drugs can be
explained in terms of the distinct neurochemical actions by which they affect
the transmission of nerve signals in the brain.

Funding for the lecture was provided in part by a Neuroplasticity of Aging
Training Grant from the National Institutes of Health.  For more information
please contact Lisa Kurtz at [log in to unmask]

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