Leon E. Rosenberg Libri

hapters Gene Structure and Function; Protein Structure and Molecular Hemoglobin; Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Molecular Basis for Hormone Action; Metabolic Interrelationships Between Carbohydrates, Lipids and Proteins; Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism; Lipoproteins and Lipid Transport; Obesity and the Adipose Cell; The Sphingolipidoses; The Mucopolysaccharidoses; Disorders of Amino Acid Metabolism; Diseases of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism; Porphyrin Metabolism and the Porphyrias; Disorders of Bilirubin Metabolism; Disorders of Collagen Metabolism; Neuroendocrine Interrelations; The Anterior Pituitary Gland; Water Metabolism and the Neurohypophysial Hormones; The Thyroid and Iodine Metabolism; The Adrenal Cortex; Aldosterone in Hypertension and Edema; The Testis; The Ovary; Catecholamines and the Adrenal Medulla; The Carrcinoid Syndrome; Bone Metabolism and Disease and Endocrine and Metabolic Effects of Cancer.

One can have a successful professional career, and a meaningful, personal life while struggling all the while with a common mental bipolar disorder. This memoir describes the author's widely recognized research in the field of inherited metabolic disorders in children, his pivotal role as Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine and as Chief Scientific Officer of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, his contributions to public affairs, and his efforts as a teacher of medical, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. These stories are interwoven with that of his personal encounter with bipolar disorder―one that has gone on for 60 years, and once nearly ended his life in a Prozac-precipitated suicide attempt. This is a narrative of hope and resilience, not one of desolation and despair.