Science Café Cleveland presents
"Dopamine - how we fuel the rush for drugs, sex and everything else"
MAY 13, 2013
FEATURING:
George E. Jaskiw, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Case听Western Reserve University
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Acting Director, Addiction Recovery Center,
Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
EVENT INFORMATION:
The neurochemical dopamine mediates our ability to get up in the morning and seek food, love and whatever rocks our world. When the common dopamine brain pathways are working properly, we have a good crack at being happy and competent social beings. The dopamine pathways can go awry in certain illnesses, or get hijacked by drugs or gambling. In such cases, there can be hell to pay. Modern techniques allow us to measure dopamine levels in the living brain and correlate them with mood, emotion and movement. These studies should help us address understanding optimal brain function and help us treat conditions such as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.
BIOGRAPHY:
After receiving an M.D. degree and completing a residency in psychiatry, Dr. Jaskiw was a Senior Fellow at the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Since 1991 he has been taking care of patients while managing a research laboratory at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and teaching at the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Medicine. His main interest has been in understanding the causes and treatment of schizophrenia and in particular the relationship between tyrosine availability and dopamine levels in the brain.
ARTICLES/LINKS OF INFORMATION:
General Reading...
,听Wikipediea, the free encyclopedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine)
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, National Institute of Mental Health,Science Update, September 15, 2008
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2008/why-my-get-up-and-go-has-got-up-and-went.shtml)
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听Scientific American, Mind & Brain, September 15, 2008
(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dopamines-central-role-brains-motivation-reward)
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听Scientific American, Mind & Brain, July 29, 2010
(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dopamine-impulsive-addiction)
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Aficionado...
听ScienceDirect, 41(3): 299-350, December 1999.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262699911296)
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You have absolutely nothing better to do...
Brodnik Z., Double M., Jaskiw G.E., 2013.听,听Psychopharmacology (Berl),听2013 Feb 1. PMID:23371490
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23371490)
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Brodnik Z., Bongiovanni R., Double M., Jaskiw G.E., 2012.听.听Neurochem Int., 61(7): 1001-6. PMID:22841861
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22841861)
EVENT DETAILS:
WHERE:听
(Located at 1947 West 25th Street next to the West Side Market, Cleveland, Ohio)
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WHEN:听May 13, 2013
Discussion starts around 7:00 p.m.
*Please Note* A few of our cafes have approached capacity and/or standing room only. If you want to be 100% sure to get in and get a good seat, you might want to arrive a bit early.
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WHO:听Sponsored by 黑料吃瓜网 chapter of Sigma Xi, WCPN
ideastream, and the Market Garden Brewery
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Click here to download a pdf听flyer of the event
