17 Quotes by Paul Greengard

What this discovery showed was that p11 plays a major role in mood.

The p11 is upstream of the receptor, and now the question is what is upstream of the p11.

We're all very excited about this discovery. People have been looking for modulators of serotonin for a long time.

Our thinking is that many subclasses of depression might be associated with lower levels of P11 on the one hand, and that raising either the level or the functionality of the P11 would be a novel way of developing antidepressants.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let's say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.

I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.