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Henri Laborit (November 21, 1914 - May 18, 1995) was a French physician, writer and philosopher. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995

Laborit was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. Hanoi ( Vietnamese: Hà Nội Hán Tự: 河[[wikt 内|内]], estimated population 3398889 (2007, is the Capital of Vietnam Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central, Peripheral nervous system and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical The fr Troupes de marine, are an arm of the French Army with naval heritage He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957. The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to Medical science. Laborit later became a research head at Boucicault Hospital in Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city

His interests included psychotropic drugs, eutonology, and memory. A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a Chemical substance that acts primarily upon the Central nervous system where it alters Brain In Psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store retain and subsequently retrieve information He pioneered the use of dopamine antagonists to reduce shock in injured soldiers. A dopamine antagonist is a drug which blocks Dopamine receptors by Receptor antagonism. His observation that people treated with these drugs showed reduced interest in their surroundings led to their later use as antipsychotics[1]. Antipsychotics are a group of Psychoactive drugs commonly but not exclusively used to treat Psychosis, which is typified by Schizophrenia. He was also the first researcher to study GHB, in the early 1960s. gamma -Hydroxybutyric acid, 4-hydroxybutanoic acid, GHB, or fantasy is a naturally-occurring substance found in the Central nervous He hoped that it would be an orally bioavailable precursor to the neurotransmitter GABA, but it proved to have other uses and was later discovered as an endogenous neurotransmitter. In Pharmacology, bioavailability is used to describe the fraction of an administered Dose of unchanged drug that reaches the Systemic circulation, one of See Chemical synapse for an introduction to concepts and terminology used in this article Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA is the chief inhibitory Neurotransmitter in the Mammalian Central nervous system. The word endogenous means "arising from within" the opposite of Exogenous. See Chemical synapse for an introduction to concepts and terminology used in this article

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He appeared in the 1980 Alain Resnais film Mon oncle d'Amérique, which is built around the ideas of Laborit and uses the stories of three people to illustrate theories deriving from evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society. Alain Resnais (born June 3 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French Film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Mon oncle d'Amérique, sometimes released as My American Uncle, is a 1980 French Film directed by Alain Resnais Evolutionary psychology ( EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits such as Memory, Perception,

The French-born American market researcher Clotaire Rapaille considered Laborit to be an important influence in his work. Market research is the process of systematically gathering recording and analyzing data and information about Customers, Competitors and the Market [1]

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  1. ^ Diaz, Jaime. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Mon oncle d'Amérique, sometimes released as My American Uncle, is a 1980 French Film directed by Alain Resnais How Drugs Influence Behavior. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996.

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