Alexander Cools

Alexander "Lex" Rudolf Cools (* 1941 in The Hague ; † September 7, 2013 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch behavioral pharmacologist .

biography

Cools received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1973 under the direction of Jacques van Rossum and Jo Vossen at Radboud University Nijmegen , where he was a professor from 1985 until his retirement . In 2014 a special issue of the journal Behavioral Pharmacology was published in his honor. Cools was one of the founders of the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society and its second president. In 2003 he received the "Distinguished Achievement Award" from this company. In 1976, Cools was the first to postulate that there could be multiple types of dopamine receptors . Although this was not initially believed, it has proven to be fundamentally correct. Besides his work on dopamine , Cools is best known for his research on the basal ganglia .

credentials

↑ AR Cools: The caudate nucleus and Neuro Chemical Control of Behavior: The function of dopamine and serotonin in the caput caudate nucleus of Cats . Drukkerij Brakkenstein, 1973.
↑ ^a ^b Bart A. Ellenbroek, Judith Homberg, Miche l Verheij, Will Spooren, Ruud Van Den Bos, Gerard Martens: Alexander Rudolf Cools (1942–2013) . In: Psychopharmacology . 231, No. 11, 2014, pp. 2219–2222. doi : 10.1007 / s00213-014-3583-5 . PMID 24770629 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Trevor Robbins: Alexander R. Cools (1941–2013) . In: Behavioral Pharmacology . 26, 2015, pp. 4–5. doi : 10.1097 / FBP.0000000000000101 .
^ ^A ^b Paul Willner, Jack Bergman, Louk Vanderschuren, Bart Ellenbroek: The behavioral pharmacology of the basal ganglia . In: Behavioral Pharmacology . 26, No. 1–2, 2015, pp. 1–2. doi : 10.1097 / FBP.0000000000000125 . PMID 25539481 .
↑ AR Cools, JM van Rossum: Excitation-mediating and inhibition-mediating dopamine-receptors: a new concept towards a better understanding of electrophysiological, biochemical, pharmacological, functional and clinical data . In: Psychopharmacologia . 45, No. 3, 1976, pp. 243-254. PMID 175391 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cools, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cools, Alexander Rudolf (full name); Cools, Lex Rudolf (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch behavioral pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 2013
Place of death	Nijmegen

[1] AR Cools: The caudate nucleus and Neuro Chemical Control of Behavior: The function of dopamine and serotonin in the caput caudate nucleus of Cats . Drukkerij Brakkenstein, 1973.

[Ellenbroek-2] Bart A. Ellenbroek, Judith Homberg, Miche l Verheij, Will Spooren, Ruud Van Den Bos, Gerard Martens: Alexander Rudolf Cools (1942–2013) . In: Psychopharmacology . 231, No. 11, 2014, pp. 2219–2222. doi : 10.1007 / s00213-014-3583-5 . PMID 24770629 .

[Robbins-3] Trevor Robbins: Alexander R. Cools (1941–2013) . In: Behavioral Pharmacology . 26, 2015, pp. 4–5. doi : 10.1097 / FBP.0000000000000101 .

[Willner-4] A ^b Paul Willner, Jack Bergman, Louk Vanderschuren, Bart Ellenbroek: The behavioral pharmacology of the basal ganglia . In: Behavioral Pharmacology . 26, No. 1–2, 2015, pp. 1–2. doi : 10.1097 / FBP.0000000000000125 . PMID 25539481 .

[5] AR Cools, JM van Rossum: Excitation-mediating and inhibition-mediating dopamine-receptors: a new concept towards a better understanding of electrophysiological, biochemical, pharmacological, functional and clinical data . In: Psychopharmacologia . 45, No. 3, 1976, pp. 243-254. PMID 175391 .