FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2000 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 EXPERT ON EMOTIONS AND HEALING TO SPEAK AT DRAKE Candace B. Pert, a research professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center, will discuss her research on emotions and mind-body communication in a lecture at Drake University on Tuesday, April 11. Pert's lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Molecules of Emotion." The event will start at 8 p.m. in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue. She will explore how our biological communication systems weave mind and body into a single web, and how this system is affected by our behavior, feelings, lifestyle and environment. A pharmacologist who has lectured worldwide, Pert has published more than 200 scientific papers in research journals and written a popular book titled "Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Feel." She also holds patents for modified peptides for treatment of numerous diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. She is completing a research study on a peptide-based therapy for the AIDS virus. Pert earned her Ph.D. in pharmacology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for her discovery of the brain’s opiate receptor. She also has been featured on Bill Moyer’s PBS special, “Healing and the Mind.” Pert's lecture at Drake is sponsored by the University's Neuroscience Program. For more information, call (515) 271-2043.