George Kevork Aghajanian MD

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry

Neuropharmacology

Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center

Neurotransmission; antipsychotics; antidepressants; hallucinogens; opiates

Liu, R-J. and Aghajanian, G.K. Stress blunts serotonin- and hypocretin-evoked EPSCs in prefrontal cortex: role of corticosterone-mediated apical dendritic atrophy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105:359-64, 2008.

Articles

Autumn 2006

Pfc. Don Wheatland sits on his bed babbling, pulse racing, occasionally swatting imaginary flies. Capt. Martin Baker,...

Autumn 2008

Thirty-two members of our class of 72 graduates were in attendance. Many with their wives or significant others were...

Autumn 2003

The 45th reunion of the Class of 1958 was an outstanding success with 20 members of the class entering into the...

Winter 2008

Measuring the legacy of a scientist with a 38-year career can take many forms—tallies of awards, peer-reviewed...

Spring 2001

George K. Aghajanian, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor of...

Spring 1999

George K. Aghajanian, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, received the 1998 Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia...

Spring 2008

That the brain has specific receptors for various drugs is now an established fact, but it took a long, strange trip by...

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