Stories
- Article
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Lithium - Lundbeck
Date: 1948-1985Reference: PP/MLV/C/12/6Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Fell - Foreign Office German Education Department
Date: 1945-1986Reference: PP/MLV/C/6/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
A primer of drug action : a concise, nontechnical guide to the actions, uses, and side effects of psychoactive drugs / Robert M. Julien.
Julien, Robert M.Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
CNS drugs : a symposium held at the Regional Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, January 24-30, 1966.
Symposium on Central Nervous System(CNS) Drugs, Hyderabad, India, 1966.Date: [1966], ©1966
- Books
- Online
The effect of underfeeding on the percentage of water, on the ether-alcohol extract, and on medullation in the central nervous system of the albino rat / Henry H. Donaldson.
Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938.Date: 1911