Grilly, David M., 1944-

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.

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Psychopharmacology.