Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior

The Pharmacology of Therapeutics and Drug Use Disorders
3. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-41978-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

This third edition of Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior provides a comprehensive overview of the brain and explores the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence.

Dr Brick provides definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching illustrations to discuss the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs. Topics include: how psychoactive drugs affect cognition, behavior, and emotion; the brain/behavior relationship; the specific effects of major addictive and psychoactive drug groups; new definitions and thinking about abuse and dependence; and the medical uses of drugs, such as cannabinoids. A new chapter on biobehavioral markers explores how markers can guide the clinician in the diagnosis of some disorders. This book offers a quick reference guide which uses a balance of instruction, illustrations, tables, and formulas, that will give you a broad, lasting introduction to this intriguing subject.

Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior is an invaluable resource for students in the field, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, physicians and other health care professionals.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Training, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brick, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1       What Is a Drug?

2       The Brain–Behavior Relationship

3       Pharmacokinetics

4       Functional Neuroanatomy: Where Do Psychoactive Drugs Act?

5       Neurophysiology: How Do Psychoactive Drugs Act?

6       Antidepressants: Drugs That Lift Us Up

7       Anxiolytics: Drugs That Calm Us Down at a Cost

8       Antipsychotics: Drugs That Make Us Sane

9       Stimulants: Drugs That Make Us High

10    Alcohol: The Socially Accepted Addictive Drug

11    Opioids: Drugs That Calm Our Pain

12    Inhalants: A Matter of Life and Breath!

13    Marijuana: The Sometimes Illegal Recreational Plant

14    Hallucinogens: Altering Reality or Helping?

15    Nicotine: Of What Value?

16    Addiction: The Chronic Medical Illness

17    Biobehavioral Markers of Substance Abuse Disorders

18    Forensic Issues in Psychopharmacology

Über Autor(innen)

John Brick, Ph.D., M.A., F.A.P.A. is a highly published author in psychopharmacology and the biomedical effects of alcohol and other drugs, national and international lecturer, and neuroscience trained research scientist in biological psychology.