Corneliu E. Giurgea

Piracetam

Corneliu E. Giurgea (6 January 1923, Bucharest – 30 December 1995, Brussels)[1] was a Romanian psychologist and chemist. In 1964 he synthesised Piracetam, which he has described as a nootropic.[2]

Giurgea coined the term nootropic[3][4] in 1972.[5][6]

  1. ^ Riga, Dan; Sorin Riga; Aurel Ardelean & Coralia Cotoraci (2014-05-19). "Prof. Dr. Corneliu GIURGEA (1923 – 1995), descoperitorul Piracetamului şi al unei noi clase de medicamente în terapeutica mondială". Cover - Ultimul numar (in Romanian). Medica Academica. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  2. ^ Giurgea CE, Greindl MG, Preat S (1983). "Nootropic drugs and aging". Acta Psychiatr Belg. 83 (4): 349–58. PMID 6660010.
  3. ^ Shorvon S (December 2001). "Pyrrolidone derivatives". Lancet. 358 (9296): 1885–92. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)06890-8. PMID 11741647. S2CID 205937857.
  4. ^ "PHAR 402".
  5. ^ Gazzaniga, Michael S. (2006). The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas (P.S.). New York, N.Y: Harper Perennial. p. 184. ISBN 0-06-088473-8.
  6. ^ Giurgea C (1972). "[Pharmacology of integrative activity of the brain. Attempt at nootropic concept in psychopharmacology] ("Vers une pharmacologie de l'active integrative du cerveau: Tentative du concept nootrope en psychopharmacologie")". Actual Pharmacol (Paris) (in French). 25: 115–56. PMID 4541214.