{"id":20332,"date":"2016-07-01T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=20332"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:18:21","slug":"whats-new-on-the-pauling-blog-peter-pauling-exploring-the-structure-of-psychotropic-drugs-searching-for-comfort-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/07\/01\/whats-new-on-the-pauling-blog-peter-pauling-exploring-the-structure-of-psychotropic-drugs-searching-for-comfort-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new on the Pauling Blog? Peter Pauling: Exploring the Structure of Psychotropic Drugs, Searching for Comfort in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20335\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/?attachment_id=20335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20335\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2016\/06\/1973i-44.jpg\" alt=\"The Pauling family at Deer Flat Ranch, 1973. Peter stands at left.\" width=\"468\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/1973i-44.jpg 468w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/1973i-44-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pauling family at Deer Flat Ranch, 1973. Peter stands at left.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<em>The life of Peter Pauling, part 8 of 9<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>It was the 1970s, and Peter Pauling was studying the molecular arrangement and physiological effects of hallucinogens. The field of psychopharmacology, crucial to psychiatric treatments of mental disorders, was at the time almost brand new. Only in the 1960s did most physicians begin to consider the potential of psychoactive pharmacological treatments in treating mood disorders and neurologically based physical ailments. The role that\u00a0different substances played in the alteration of brain chemistry, their influence on synaptic changes, and the modifications in nervous response that they could bring about were all still poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulingblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/29\/peter-pauling-exploring-the-structure-of-psychotropic-drugs-searching-for-comfort-in-the-country-1970-2003\/\">Curious? Read the whole post on the Pauling Blog!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The life of Peter Pauling, part 8 of 9] It was the 1970s, and Peter Pauling was studying the molecular arrangement and physiological effects of hallucinogens. The field of psychopharmacology, crucial to psychiatric treatments of mental disorders, was at the time almost brand new. Only in the 1960s did most physicians begin to consider the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What's new on the Pauling Blog? 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