This year, the Nobel committee awarded the Prize for Physiology
or Medicine to three neuroscientists, Arvid Carlsson, Paul
Greengard, and Eric R. Kandel.
Their contributions opened a molecular window onto the brain --
Carlsson by identifying dopamine as the first brain
neurotransmitter found uniquely in the brain, Greengard by
illuminating the molecular cascade triggered inside the neuron by
dopamine, and Kandel by recognizing that the molecular basis of
cognitive processes such as learning must first be worked out in
simpler systems before they can be understood in the brains of
complex mammals such as ourselves.
Science has had the privilege of publishing many of the seminal
papers from two of these scientists, Paul Greengard and Eric R.
Kandel. These papers were critical in the work for which they
received their recent Nobel Prizes. We have posted a selection of
these Science papers online at
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/nobelprize/.
The articles are available free of charge for the next few
weeks, so please pass this email on to anyone you think might be
interested in reading them.
Sincerely,
The Editors of Science
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