Two years later, I was off to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, where I started my own daily psychoanalysis and steeped myself in the emerging brain science. Everyone at Pitt was already working on MHPG, so I settled for measuring lithium uptake into red blood cells as a possible way of identifying different mood problems. I also froze urine samples of patients with schizophrenia, which were then sent off to Linus Pauling at Stanford; learned how to program computers to conduct data analysis; and presented findings at a psychophysiology conference. Through my research, I was
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