Three neuroscientists whose work has revealed molecular mechanisms by which brain cells communicate share this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Beyond opening a window to how memories form, their work has led to drugs for Parkinson’s disease and offered insight into how some antipsychotic drugs work.
At sites called synapses, nerve cells use chemicals such as dopamine to signal neighboring cells.
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