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“Being a single parent on a postdoc salary is pretty much impossible at this point,” adds Marjorie Levinstein, a neuropharmacology postdoc at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and an organizer for NIH Fellows United, a group that’s trying to establish a union for early-career researchers who work at NIH.

While prepping for medical school at the University of North Dakota, Schrag spent long hours in a neuropharmacology lab absorbing the patient rhythms of science.

He paged through a thick book titled “Molecular Neuropharmacology” which he had read in prison.

Essentially, beta-amyloid hijacks the norepinephrine pathway to trigger a toxic buildup of tau, says Qin Wang, the study’s senior author and a professor of neuropharmacology in the department of cell, developmental and integrative biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In an analysis published last October in an issue of Neuropharmacology, a medical journal focused on neuroscience, researchers from Johns Hopkins University recommended that psilocybin be reclassified for medical use – arguing its benefits in helping treat PTSD, depression and anxiety and helping people stop smoking.