‘Medical Express’
As reported in the Belfast Telegraph, Tuesday 4th August 1981 in relation to a BBC1 programme ‘Medical Express’
Tag: serotonin
‘MENTAL CURES BY USE OF DRUGS’
This, from the Birmingham Daily Post, Wednesday 4th May 1955, is one of the first UK reports of Serotonin ‘imbalance’ causing/leading to mental health disorders. It was written by “a … Continue reading ‘MENTAL CURES BY USE OF DRUGS’
The matoke eaters
When I worked in Kampala I was fed by local families. They were ever so kind to me. Every day we eat matoke (green bananas) – it was delicious. This … Continue reading The matoke eaters
Serotonin is a vasoconstrictor
This is a letter from 1954 by Dr Alfred Letchner and published in the British Medical Journal
Serotonin and gut motility (1963)
This letter to the BMJ from December 1963 interested me. I worked in Kampala, Uganda between 1989 and 1990 and experienced the green banana diet.
Some neurophysiological aspects of Serotonin (1954)
This paper was published in the British Medical Journal in 1954. It was one of the first papers published in Britain on Serotonin:
“Doctors gamble on a cure”
In recent posts I have shared some of what I have come across in the British Newspaper Archive in relation to a search on the word “serotonin”. I have found … Continue reading “Doctors gamble on a cure”
BBC2: 7.30pm, Tuesday 18th July 1995
Many, if not all British newspapers have now been digitised for the British Newspaper Archive. Until relatively recently this had covered a period only up to the 1950s. However digitisation … Continue reading BBC2: 7.30pm, Tuesday 18th July 1995