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|Videos|January 18, 2021
When a Drug Binds With a Receptor...
Author(s)John J. Miller, MD
Every medication, when it interfaces with receptor, has a different consequence.
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John J. Miller, MD, talks the interactions of drugs with receptors in the brain and a personal pet peeve of his.
Dr Miller is Medical Director, Brain Health, Exeter, NH; Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times; Staff Psychiatrist, Seacoast Mental Health Center, Exeter, NH; Consulting Psychiatrist, Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH; Consulting Psychiatrist, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA.
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