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Arvid Carlsson
Establishing dopamine’s importance in brain signalling and movement.
Dopamine experiments · Nobel recognition
- Born
- 25 January 1923
- Birthplace
- Uppsala
- Died
- 29 June 2018
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Arvid Carlsson
Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish researcher whose dopamine experiments helped transform understanding of Parkinson’s disease. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Early life
Medical training
Studied at Lund University, receiving his medical and doctoral qualifications in 1951.
Career
- 1951
Lund appointment
Became an associate professor.
- 1950s
Brain research
Investigated dopamine and the effects of drugs on movement.
- 1959
Gothenburg
Became a professor there.
Contributions
Dopamine experiments
Linked depleted dopamine with impaired movement in animals.
Nobel recognition
Shared the medicine prize with Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel.
Beyond work
Family collaboration
His daughters Maria and Lena worked with him in research roles.
Sources & photo credit
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