Probing the Chemistry of The Brain.

MENTAL illness -- Treatment; DRUG development; CHLORPROMAZINE -- Therapeutic use; MENTAL health

Discusses the development of drugs for treating mental illness. Discovery of the synthetic tranquilizer, chlorpromazine, which created psychopharmacology; Introduction of Prozac, which revolutionized psychiatry; How computerized brain scans, DNA probes and other technological advances have become important tools for understanding the brain's inner workings at a molecular level; Thought that mental illness is a combination of nature and nurture.