Delivers a succinct yet thorough overview of modern psychopharmacology covering everything from basic neurotransmitter function to specific pharmacological approaches for treating such conditions as depression, anxiety, addiction, and neurodegenerative diseases. This updated edition describes new developments in drug therapy and research and includes approximately 300 new references.
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...an excellent summary...certainly appeal to...any clinician wishing to obtain a short, user-friendly review..." (Human Psychopharmacology, Vol 19(1), January 2004)
"...an excellent summary of the broad area of psychopharmacology...will certainly appeal to all students of pharmacology..." (Human Psychopharmacology, Vol 19, 2004
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Psychopharmaceuticals are medications that can affect the behavior and subjective state of man and are used therapeutically on account of these 'psychotropic' effects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern psychopharmaceuticals, sleep polygram, new psychopharmaceuticals, less sedative antipsychotics, usual clinical care, chronic mild stress model, medical research involving human subjects, antidementia drugs, combined drug therapy, amnestic effects, healthy elderly volunteers, calming action, antipsychotic action, modern psychopharmacology, principal receptors, pharmacological findings, placebo response rates, forced swim test, schizophrenic psychoses, serotonin hypothesis, registration phase, antipsychotic efficacy, benzodiazepine anxiolytics, antipsychotic therapy, psychostimulant drugs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Psychopharmaceuticals are medications that can affect the behavior and subjective state of man and are used therapeutically on account of these 'psychotropic' effects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern psychopharmaceuticals, sleep polygram, new psychopharmaceuticals, less sedative antipsychotics, usual clinical care, chronic mild stress model, medical research involving human subjects, antidementia drugs, combined drug therapy, amnestic effects, healthy elderly volunteers, calming action, antipsychotic action, modern psychopharmacology, principal receptors, pharmacological findings, placebo response rates, forced swim test, schizophrenic psychoses, serotonin hypothesis, registration phase, antipsychotic efficacy, benzodiazepine anxiolytics, antipsychotic therapy, psychostimulant drugs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fourth Edition, John Wiley, Deutsch Lezak, General Assembly, Declaration of Helsinki, Factors Related, Cooperative Group, Emil Kraepelin, Hoffmann-La Roche, Placebo Drug New!
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- Antiepileptic Drugs by René H. Levy on 7 pages
- Discoveries in Biological Psychiatry by Frank Ayd in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Clinical Management of Anxiety Disorders by William Coryell in Back Matter
- Pharmacological Methods, Receptors and Chemotherapy (Discoveries in Pharmacology) (v. 3) in Back Matter
- Working Memory (Oxford Psychology Series) by Alan Baddeley in Back Matter
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- Understanding Drugs and Behaviour by Andrew Parrott on page 170, and Back Matter
- Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists 3 Ed by John D. Preston in Back Matter
- Handbook Of Clinical Psychopharmacology For Therapists, Fourth Edition by John D. Preston in Back Matter
- Psychopharmacology: An Introduction by René Spiegel in Front Matter
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