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Brain Tryptophan

Normal and Disturbed Control

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Recent Advances in Tryptophan Research

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 398))

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I am both pleased and honoured to have been invited to lecture here where the modern age might reasonably be said to have begun. It was in Padua that Galileo wrote a book, Siderius Nuncius — in English, “The Messengers of the Stars” — which set the seal on a revolution in how we visualise the Universe and our place in it. I am also pleased to be at a place that has had a great influence on British scolarship — where William Harvey was led towards discovering the circulation of the blood and where the English ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton was so involved with its intellectual life that he sent Galileo’s Messenger of the Stars to King James the First on its actual day of publication (13/3/1610). The covering letter (quoted by Smith, 1907) is quite amusing; Wotton is impressed but cautious and dismisses science in favour of more important matters.

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Curzon, G. (1996). Brain Tryptophan. In: Filippini, G.A., Costa, C.V.L., Bertazzo, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Tryptophan Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 398. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_3

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