Social and medical origins of neurochemistry

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 885-890

  Sourkes, Theodore L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cabanis, Georges; Couerbe, Jean Pierre; F lling, Asbjorn; Fourcroy, Antoine Fran ois; Garrod, Sir Archibald; Hensing, Johann Thomas; Kernicterus; Lowe, Robert Lord Sherbrooke; Moleschott, Jacob; Simon, Sir John; Soemmering, Samuel Thomas

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; FRANCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; EUROPE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PHOSPHORUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 4444323839     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2004.05.030     Document Type: Review

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