Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson is dead

Swedish Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson passed away, confirming the University of Gothenburg in a press release. Carlsson was born in Uppsala in 1923 and was, until his death, a pharmacologist and professor emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. His research career began at Lund University, your family moved in the mid-20s.

Elias Eriksson, friend and colleague of Arvid Carlsson for decades, comments on his contribution: [19659002] – Arvid Carlsson was a scientific giant and one of the best-deserved Nobel Prize laureates. His fundamental discoveries about how the nerves of the brain communicate with each other have opened up a whole new field of research. At the same time, his efforts have had tremendous practical significance for patients with Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorders.

In the early 1950s, Arvid Carlsson showed that a dopamine deficiency in the brain could result in slow muscle movements. . With the help of L-dopa, which in the brain is converted to dopamine, the disorders were stopped. The discovery was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000.

– Untreated Parkinson's Disease is a disabling condition, but thanks to Arvid Carlsson's research on dopamine, it is possible to produce a drug effective. use in this disease.

Research Was Of Major Importance

However, Arvid's Research Carlsson has been of great importance for patients with various other diseases. According to Elias Eriksson, patients suffering from schizophrenia, depression and anxiety have benefited from significantly improved treatments through his work.

– Arvid Carlsson has also played a decisive role in the development of what is called the SSRIs, which are now the dominant treatment for depression and anxiety disorder, and which are used by about 10% of the population. And he has also paved the way for the development of new drugs for serious psychotic illness such as schizophrenia.

Elias Eriksson tells Arvid Carlsson to work and be scientifically active in the latter.

– Arvid Carlsson lived a very well used life. He was 95 but was scientifically active in the last one. In recent years, for example, he is strongly committed to developing a new drug to treat various forms of fatigue in patients.

The evening job was in contact with the family of Arvid Carlsson.