Psychopharmacology : an introduction
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Psychopharmacology : an introduction
（A Wiley medical publication）
Wiley, c1989
2nd ed
- Other Title
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Psychopharmakologie
- Uniform Title
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Psychopharmakologie
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Translation of: Psychopharmakologie
Bibliography: p. 240-267
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Aimed at psychologists, psychiatrists and other clinicians dealing with patients who take psychopharmaceuticals, this study presents their desired and adverse actions. It outlines their therapeutic uses and limitations, their history, and research into potentional new psychopharmaceuticals.
Table of Contents
- Modern psychopharmaceuticals - neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquillizers and hypnotics, psychostimulants and nootropics
- the history of psychopharmacology - psychopharmacy in the ancient world and Middle Ages, the modern age - psychopharmacology before chlorpromazine, the discovery of modern psychopharmaceuticals
- effects of psychopharmaceuticals on healthy subjects - studies conducted by Kraepelin, results of pharmacopsychological trials
- studies with neurophysiological methods in human psychopharmacology - electrical correlates of brain activity, effects of psychopharmaceuticals on the wake EEG, on the sleep polygram and on evoked potentials
- mechanism of action of psychopharmaceuticals - considerations regarding the concept of mechanisms of action, some basic neurobiological terms, hypotheses regarding the mode of action of neuroleptics and antidepressants and tranquillizers
- clinical research in psychopharmacology - relations between pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters, protection of individual patients
- drugs and memory - experiments in healthy subjects, therapeutically administered psychopharmaceuticals and memory functions, memory disturbances in advanced age and senile dementia, the dementia syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
- psychopharmaceuticals and the treatment of mental disorders - neuroleptics and the treatment of schizophrenia, antidepressants and the treatment of depression, psychostimulants and the treatment of the hyperkinetic syndrome in children
- effects of psychopharmacology on psychiatry and psychology.
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