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Erminio Costa

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Erminio Costa
BornMarch 9, 1924
DiedNovember 28, 2009(2009-11-28) (aged 85)[1]
NationalityItalian
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Cagliari
Known forResearch on serotonin, the GABA receptor, and metabotropic glutamate receptors
SpouseIngeborg Hanbauer
ChildrenMichael, Max and Robert (Robert died in 2006)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsNeuropharmacology
InstitutionsColumbia University, Georgetown University

Erminio "Mimo" Costa (March 9, 1924 – November 28, 2009) was an Italian-American neuroscientist.[3] His research interests covered brain serotonergic activity in health and disease, benzodiazepine-GABA interactions,[4] benzodiazepine action at GABAA receptors, neurophysiological role of neurosteroids,[5] and GABAergic dysfunction and changes in the expression of reelin and GAD67 in schizophrenia.[6] He published more than 1,000 articles.[7] The June 2011 issue of the journal Neuropharmacology was dedicated to him.[8]

Career

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Books

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  • Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology (1969)
  • Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the Basal Ganglia (1966)
  • Biochemistry of Simple Neuronal Models (1970)
  • Neurosteroids and Brain Function (1991)
  • The Endorphins - Vol. 18 (1985)

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References

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  1. ^ Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
  2. ^ Grayson, D. R.; Guidotti, A. (2010). "Erminio Costa". Neuropsychopharmacology. 35 (13): 2646. doi:10.1038/npp.2009.231. PMC 3055564.
  3. ^ Clayton, Paula J.; Fatemi, S. Hossein (2008). The medical basis of psychiatry. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. ISBN 1-58829-917-1.
  4. ^ Barondes, Samuel H. (2003). Better than Prozac: Creating the next generation of psychiatric drugs. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515130-5.
  5. ^ Pinna, G.; Uzunova, V.; Matsumoto, K.; Puia, G.; Mienville, J. M.; Costa, E.; Guidotti, A. (2000-01-28). "Brain allopregnanolone regulates the potency of the GABA(A) receptor agonist muscimol". Neuropharmacology. 39 (3): 440–448. doi:10.1016/s0028-3908(99)00149-5. ISSN 0028-3908. PMID 10698010.
  6. ^ Costa E, Chen Y, Davis J, Dong E, Noh JS, Tremolizzo L, Veldic M, Grayson DR, Guidotti A (February 2002). "REELIN and schizophrenia: a disease at the interface of the genome and the epigenome". Mol. Interv. 2 (1): 47–57. doi:10.1124/mi.2.1.47. PMID 14993361. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  7. ^ "UIC, Dept. of Psychiatry News: Erminio Costa, M.D., Logs 1,000th Publication". Archived from the original on 30 April 2004.
  8. ^ Bloom FE (June 2011). "Mentored and inspired by Mimo: a tribute to Erminio Costa". Neuropharmacology. 60 (7–8): 1003–6. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2010.09.019. PMID 20869374.
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