Abstract
Carlos Zarate's journey to his current position as Chief of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD, USA, began with tennis. During high school in Cordoba, Argentina, Zarate, a young tennis star, gave tennis lessons to the chief of cardiovascular surgery at a private hospital who in return allowed him to observe cardiac and neurosurgeries. “I spent all my summers in high school doing that” and “I fell in love with neurosurgery and started getting interested in the brain”, he recalls. Zarate went to medical school at the Catholic University of Cordoba and, after moving to the USA and completing the clinical part of his foreign medical exam, he was offered a psychiatry residency at Brockton Veterans Administration Medical Center in Massachusetts. There, he was inspired by some of the “legends of psychopharmacology” at the time including Alan Green, and in Boston, Carl Salzman and Joe Schildkraut.
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