Development and Engineering of Dopamine Neurons

The neurotransmitter dopamine has just celebrated its 50th birthday. The discoveryof dopamine as a neuronal entity in the late 1950 s and the notion that it servesin neurotransmission has been a milestone in the field of neuroscience research. Thismilestone marked the beginning of an era that explored the brain as an integratedcollection of neuronal systems that one could distinguish on basis of neurotransmitteridentities, and importantly, in which one started to be able to pinpoint the seatof brain disease.