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âNearly all psychiatric drugs affect serotonin receptors to some extent, and these receptors also mediate a host of effects outside the brain, for example on blood coagulation, smooth muscle contraction and heart valve growth,â said Bryan Roth, a collaborator on both studies who is professor of pharmacology at the University of North Carolina (UNC).
Like many neurotransmitters, serotonin has more than one message to convey to its targets in the brain. Twelve years after the completion of the previous study, researchers continued to examine the effects of altered serotonin on behavior, using technology and methods that were unavailable during Duâs experiment.