Essential Psychopharmacology:/ neuroscientific basis and practical applications Stahl,Stephen M - 2 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 601

Preface; 1. Principles of chemical neuro transmission; 2. Receptors and enzymes as the targets of drug action; 3. Special properties of receptors; 4. Chemical neuro transmission as the mediator of disease actions; 5. Depression and bipolar disorders; 6. Classical antidepressants, serotonin selective re uptake inhibitors and noradrenergic re uptake inhibitors; 7. Newer antidepressants and mood stabilizers; 8. Anxiolytics and sedative-hypnotics; 9. Drug treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder and phobic disorders; 10. Psychosis and schizophrenia; 11. Anti psychotic agents; 12. Cognitive enhancers; 13. Psychopharmacology of reward and drugs of abuse; 14. Gender and sexual psychopharmacology; References; Index.

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