• Question: do you know anything about the human brain?

    Asked by andrewmoth to Philip on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Philip Denniff answered on 21 Jun 2011:


      Very little. My job at work is to measure drug levels in biological samples for the development of new drugs. If the drug is for something like dementia, schizophrenia or other disease of the brain the scientists developing them need to know if it is getting into the brain and they send me brain sample to see how much drug there is in the brain. But that is not human brain we don’t take human brain samples for obvious reasons.

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