The molecular wake-up call

Alison Abbott writes in the May 24, 2007 issue of Nature:

It is 50 years since Arvid Carlsson showed dopamine to be a neurotransmitter.

Catatonic rabbits were revived by dopamine in a 1957 experiment led by Arvid Carlsson (photographs, above). In the background is an image of Arvid Carlsson's 1957 publication in the prestigious journal Nature.

Rabbit photographs by Tor Magnusson

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