Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. He was the great-grandson of a slave who was born in the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo; his grandfather was also a slave. His original name was Thoroughgood, but was eventually shortened to Thurgood in second grade because he disliked spelling it.
DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Bupropion hydrochloride is an antidepressant medication that affects chemicals within the brain that nerves use to send messages to each other. (Forfivo XL is an extended release form of bupropion hydrochloride.) Chemical messengers are called neurotransmitters.
Bupropion was synthesized in 1966 by Burroughs Research' group of scientists seeking an agent that would be active in antidepressant screening models, but differ chemically and pharmacologically from the tricyclics, and not be sympathomimetic, cholinolytic, nor an inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (Soroko et al.