Arvid Carlsson

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Arvid Carlsson (2011)

Arvid Carlsson (born January 25, 1923 in Uppsala ; † June 29, 2018 ) was a Swedish pharmacologist who became known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine . Together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard , he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 “for their discoveries about signal transmission in the nervous system ”.

biography

Professional career

Carlsson studied medicine from 1941 at Lund University , where his father taught history . Although Sweden remained neutral during World War II, he had to interrupt his training to serve in the Swedish army for several years. In 1951 he received his doctorate and subsequently became a professor at Lund University . Eight years later, Carlsson took over the chair of pharmacology at the University of Gothenburg , which he held until his retirement in 1989.

Scientific work

In the 1950s he discovered the substance dopamine as an independent neurotransmitter (signaling substance, messenger substance) and its effects on the human brain. In the ongoing fight against Parkinson's disease , which, as Carlsson was able to show in 1960, is triggered by a deficiency of this signaling substance in certain brain stem regions, he played a key role in this discovery and the subsequent research in this area.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. https://sahlgrenska.gu.se/english/research/researchers/arvid-carlsson
  2. ^ Membership directory: Arvid Carlsson. Academia Europaea, accessed October 13, 2017 .
  3. ^ Membership directory: Arvid Carlsson. Academia Europaea, accessed October 13, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Arvid Carlsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files