Nathan Schellenberg Kline was an American #psychiatrist who is credited with founding the field o…
Nathan Schellenberg Kline was an American #psychiatrist who is credited with founding the field of #psychopharmacology.
In 1953, he began investigating the use of a new drug, #reserpine, to treat #schizophrenia.
He continued to pioneer in the biochemical #treatment of #mentally ill patients by introducing the use of such drugs as the #antidepressants lithium and iproniazid and the #tranquilizer resperine.
Because these drugs so successfully drugs treated two of the major categories of psychiatric illness, thousands of patients - formerly considered untreatable - were able to leave institutions and to rejoin society.
By 1957, #iproniazid, first in the class of monoamine oxidase (#MAO) inhibitors, was treating an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S.
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