Brain Messengers The Inaugural Arthur M Sackler Lecture

Description: In this National Academy of Sciences program, Solomon H. Snyder, professor of neuroscience at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the panorama of signaling systems to look at the astonishing diversity of recently identified chemical messengers that convey information among neurons in the brain, as well as their major clinical consequences. Recent advances in molecular neuroscience have revealed similarities in signaling mechanisms between and within cells among molecular events as diverse as drug addiction, olfaction, and nerve growth.