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For undergraduate courses in Drugs and Behavior Psychopharmacology, as well as graduate survey courses in Psychopharmacology.
This text gives an up-to-date description of the field of Behavioral Pharmacology. It starts by describing basic pharmacological concepts of drug administration and pharmacokinetics, research methodology including clinical trials, tolerance and withdrawal, drug conditioning, addiction processes, and neuroscience of drug action. Each chapter, thereafter, applies these concepts to different classes of both recreational and therapeutic drugs. Each chapter includes a section on the history of the drug class that places the drug in its historical and social context. It is written to be understandable to students without a background in Pharmacology or Neuroscience or Psychology.
Synopsis
For undergraduate courses in Drugs and Behavior Psychopharmacology, as well as graduate survey courses in Psychopharmacology.
This text gives an up-to-date description of the field of Behavioral Pharmacology. It starts by describing basic pharmacological concepts of drug administration and pharmacokinetics, research methodology including clinical trials, tolerance and withdrawal, drug conditioning, addiction processes, and neuroscience of drug action. Each chapter, thereafter, applies these concepts to different classes of both recreational and therapeutic drugs. Each chapter includes a section on the history of the drug class that places the drug in its historical and social context. It is written to be understandable to students without a background in Pharmacology or Neuroscience or Psychology.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Some Basic Pharmacology
Ch. 2. Research Design and the Behavioral Analysis of Drug
Ch. 3. Tolerance, Withdrawal, Sensitization, and Conditioning of Drug Effects
Ch. 4. Neurophysiology, Neurotransmitters and the Nervous System
Ch. 5. Dependence Addition and the Self-Administration of Drugs
Ch. 6. Alcohol
Ch. 7. Tranquilizers and the Sedative-Hypnotic
Ch. 8. Solvents, Anaesthetics and Inhaled Substances
Ch. 9. Tobacco and Nicotine
Ch. 10. Caffeine and the Methylyzanthines
Ch. 11. Psychomotor Stimulants
Ch. 12. Opiates and Opioids
Ch. 13. Antipsychotic Drugs
Ch. 14. Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers
Ch. 15. Cannabis
Ch. 16 Hallucinogens, Phantasticants and Club Drugs