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Psychopharmacology Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Psychopharmacology By Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Psychopharmacology by Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)


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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior, Second Edition is appropriate for undergraduate or beginning level graduate courses in psychopharmacology or drugs and behavior that emphasize relationships between the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs and their mechanisms of action.

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Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior by Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. The first edition of Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior, published in 2004, was unique in its breadth of coverage ranging from historical accounts of drug use to clinical and preclinical behavioral studies to the latest research on drug effects in transgenic mouse models. Student engagement with the material is fostered by opening each chapter with a relevant vignette and by providing breakout boxes presenting novel and, in some cases, controversial topics for special discussion. Box themes include History of Psychopharmacology, Pharmacology in Action, Clinical Applications, and The Cutting Edge. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs and line art depicting important concepts and experimental data. Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior, Second Edition is appropriate for undergraduate or beginning level graduate courses in psychopharmacology or drugs and behavior that emphasize relationships between the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs and their mechanisms of action.

About Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Jerrold S. Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and former Director of the interdepartmental Neuroscience and Behavior Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He did his graduate work under Dr. Robert Bowman at the University of Wisconsin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1974, and he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University and with Dr. William Boggan at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is the author or coauthor of over 120 articles and chapters in the fields of neuropharmacology and neuroendocrinology, and coauthored the first edition of the present text with Linda Quenzer as well as Principles of Neuropsychopharmacology (1997) with Robert Feldman and Linda Quenzer. Dr. Meyer is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Drug Abuse Research Society and the Editorial Board of the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. He is a past President of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society. Linda F. Quenzer is Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Hartford. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1974 with Dr. Robert S. Feldman and she was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology with Dr. Norton Neff. During her appointment in the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School, she received a Career Development Award from the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Foundation. Dr. Quenzer has extensive teaching experience in the areas of psychobiology and neuropsychopharmacology at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. Her previous collaborations with Sinauer Associates include Fundamentals of Neuropsychopharmacology (1984, with Robert Feldman) and Principles of Neuropsychopharmacology (1997, with Robert Feldman and Jerrold Meyer).

Table of Contents

1: Principles of Pharmacology 2: Structure and Function of the Nervous System 3: Chemical Signaling by Neurotransmitters and Hormones 4: Methods of Research in Psychopharmacology 5: Catechloamines 6: Serotonin 7: Acetylcholine 8: Glutamate and GABA 9: Drug Abuse and Addiction 10: Alcohol 11: The Opioids 12: Psychomotor Stimulants: Cocaine and the Amphetamines 13: Nicotine and Caffeine 14: Marijuana and the Cannabinoids 15: Hallucinogens, PCP, and Ketamine 16: Inhalants, GHB, and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids 17: Environmental Neurotoxicants and Endocrine Disruptors 18: Anxiety Disorders: Sedative-Hypnotic and Anxiolytic Drugs 19: Affective Disorders: Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers 20: Schizophrenia: Antipsychotic Drugs 21: Neurodegenerative Disorders

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GOR009850518
9781605357423
1605357421
Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior by Jerrold S. Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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Oxford University Press Inc
20180628
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