Julius Axelrod Dies at 92; Won Nobel in Medicine
NY Times
ulius Axelrod, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped to discover how chemicals released by nerve cells in the brain regulate mood and behavior, died on Wednesday at his home in Rockville, Md., the National Institute of Mental Health, where he worked for most of his career, said. He was 92.
Dr. Axelrod shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two other scientists, Dr. Bernard Katz of Britain and Prof. Ulf von Euler of Sweden. Their work was essential to the development of psychiatric drugs and others and led directly to the development of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil.
The Pineal Gland and Its Endocrine Role (Nato Advanced Science Institutes Series. Series a, Life Sciences, V. 65)
Stress: Neuroendocrine and Molecular Approaches
Perspectives in neuropharmacology;: A tribute to Julius Axelrod
The History of Neuroscience Videos
Commencement address
Neurotransmitters (Scientific American offprints)
