Nicotine psychopharmacology
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Nicotine psychopharmacology
(Handbook of experimental pharmacology, v. 192)
Springer, c2009
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The fact that tobacco ingestion can affect how people feel and think has been known for millennia, placing the plant among those used spiritually, honori?cally, and habitually (Corti 1931; Wilbert 1987). However, the conclusion that nicotine - counted for many of these psychopharmacological effects did not emerge until the nineteenth century (Langley 1905). This was elegantly described by Lewin in 1931 as follows: "The decisive factor in the effects of tobacco, desired or undesired, is nicotine. . . "(Lewin 1998). The use of nicotine as a pharmacological probe to und- stand physiological functioning at the dawn of the twentieth century was a landmark in the birth of modern neuropharmacology (Limbird 2004; Halliwell 2007), and led the pioneering researcher John Langley to conclude that there must exist some "- ceptive substance" to explain the diverse actions of various substances, including nicotine, when applied to muscle tissue (Langley 1905). Research on tobacco and nicotine progressed throughout the twentieth century, but much of this was from a general pharmacological and toxicological rather than a psychopharmacological perspective (Larson et al. 1961). There was some attention to the effects related to addiction, such as euphoria (Johnston 1941), tolerance (Lewin 1931), and withdrawal (Finnegan et al. 1945), but outside of research supported by the tobacco industry, addiction and psychopharmacology were not major foci for research (Slade et al. 1995; Hurt and Robertson 1998; Henning?eld et al. 2006; Henning?eld and Hartel 1999; Larson et al. 1961).
Table of Contents
Nicotine and Tobacco Consumption: Measurement and Trends.- Global Patterns of Nicotine and Tobacco Consumption.- Nicotine Chemistry, Metabolism, Kinetics and Biomarkers.- Nicotine Content and Delivery Across Tobacco Products.- Nicotine Pharmacology and Mechanisms of Action.- The Road to Discovery of Neuronal Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor Subtypes.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Cigarette Smoking.- In vivo Brain Imaging of Human Exposure to Nicotine and Tobacco.- Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Action of Nicotine in the CNS.- The Neuronal Pathways Mediating the Behavioral and Addictive Properties of Nicotine.- Molecular Genetics of Nicotine Metabolism.- Sex Differences in Nicotine Action.- Nicotine Psychopharmacology.- Recognising Nicotine: The Neurobiological Basis of Nicotine Discrimination.- Effects of Nicotine in Experimental Animals and Humans: An Update on Addictive Properties.- Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Nicotine in Humans.- Rodent Models of Nicotine Withdrawal Syndrome.- Approaches, Challenges, and Experience in Assessing Free Nicotine.- Approaches, Challenges, and Experience in Assessing Free Nicotine.- Tobacco Industry Manipulation of Nicotine Dosing.- Pharmacotherapy for Tobacco Dependence.- Nicotine Psychopharmacology: Policy and Regulatory.
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