Drugs therapeutically effective in the treatment
of affective disorders and neurological and cardiovascular diseases have also
been shown to influence the uptake, storage, release, formation and metabo-
lism of catecholamines. These findings implicating the peripheral and central
synpathetic nervous system have provided insight into the causes and treat-
ment of mental depression, Parkinson’s disease and hypertension.
Julius Axelrod
NOBEL - LECTURE 1970
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