My Life in Clinical Neuroscience: The Beginning.
This chapter recounts the author's life from childhood until he opened his research laboratory as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1976. It emphasizes the importance of chance opportunities and generous mentoring in the initiation of his career in neuroscience and psychiatric research.
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, United States. Electronic address: joseph_coyle@hms.harvard.edu.
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Brain development; Catecholamines; Dopamine transporter; Dopamine-β-hydroxylase; Excitotoxins; Huntington's disease