Drugs, brain, and behavior /
David M. Grilly, John D. Salamone.
- 6th ed.
- Boston : Pearson, 2012.
- xv, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Pearson international edition. .
Previous editions published under title: Drugs and human behavior.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Psychopharmacology in perspective -- Drug classification and behavioral assessment -- Basic principles of pharmacology -- Excitability and chemical signaling in nerve cells -- Synaptic transmission, drugs, and chemical neuroanatomy -- Tolerance, sensitization, dependence, and addiction -- Psychomotor stimulants and antiparkinsonian drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs and neurochemical hypotheses of schizophrenia -- Antidepressants and mood stabilizers -- Sedative-hypnotics, anxiolytics, and anticonvulsants -- Drug threatment of cognitive dysfunction -- Naturally occurring and synthetic opiates and their antagonists -- Dissociative anesthetics, psychedelics, and hallucinogens.