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Essential Psychopharmacology Second Edition
Winner of Lundbech international Neuroscience Foundation (LINF) 2002 Prize for Education in Psychiatry and Neurology
"...essential reading...I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who works with psychotropic drugs - or who has the task of teaching others about them!"
American Journal of Psychiatry
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Principles of chemical neurotransmission
2. Receptors and enzymes as the targets of drug action
3. Special properties of receptors
4. Chemical neurotransmission as the mediator of disease actions
5. Depression and bipolar disorders
6. Classical antidepressants, serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors and noradrenergic reuptake inhibitors
7. Newer antidepressants and mood stabilizers
8. Anxiolytics and sedative-hypnotics
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9. Drug treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder and phobic disorders
10. Psychosis and schizophrenia
11. Antipsychotic agents
12. Cognitive enhancers
13. Psychopharmacology of reward and drugs of abuse
14. Gender and sexual psychopharmacology
References
Index |
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- Publication: June 2000
- Paperback | $85.00
- 660pp | 500 color plates
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