Name Merton Sandler Role Professor | Died August 24, 2014 | |
Books Trace Amines and the Brain: Proceedings of a Study Group Held at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, San Juan, Puerto Rico | ||
Merton Sandler (28 March 1926 – 24 August 2014) was a British professor of chemical pathology and a pioneer in biological psychiatry.
Sandler studied at the Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester. In 1959, he suggested a link between depression and monoamine deficiency in the brain, which led to the development of antidepressants. Sandler was Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of London from 1973 to 1991.
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