Psychopharmacology - Rene Spiegel, Hans J. Aebi

Psychopharmacology

An Introduction
Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
1996 | 3rd Revised edition
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-471-95729-4 (ISBN)
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Revised and updated to include new developments in drug therapy and research, this volume provides the clinician with information on modern pharmaceuticals, their therapeutic uses, limitations and adverse actions, and future treatment strategies.
The third edition of this book has been updated to incorporate many of the latest developments in the field of psychopharmacology. An introduction to modern psychopharmaceuticals, their therapeutic uses and limitations, adverse actions and future directions for research, its emphasis is very much clinical and psychological rather than neurobiological. This edition has been revised to cover new developments in drug therapy and research and includes some 300 new references. Sections on the treatment of depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease have been entirely rewritten to include the important new developments in treatment strategies.

Modern psychopharmaceuticals - neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquilizers and hypnotics; history of psychopharmacology - psychopharmacology in the ancient world and Middle Ages, modern age; effects of psychopharmaceuticals on healthy subjects - subjective experience and behaviour - the subject of pharmacopsychology; electrical correlates of brain activity - effects of psychopharmaceuticals on the wake EEG, the sleep polygram and evoked potentials; mechanism of action of psychopharmaceuticals - some basic neurobiological concepts; clinical research in psychopharmacology - protection of the individual patient, predictor research; drugs and memory - effects of neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquilizers, psychostimulants and nootropics; psychopharmaceuticals and the treatment of mental disorders - neuroleptics and the treatment of schizophrenia; economic aspects of psychopharmacology - effects of psychopharmacology on psychiatry and psychology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.2.1996
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chichester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 620 g
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-471-95729-1 / 0471957291
ISBN-13 978-0-471-95729-4 / 9780471957294
Zustand Neuware
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