Neurobiology of mood disorders / editors Bruno P. Guiard, Faculty of Pharmacy, University Paris South XI, Châtenay-Malabry, France & Eliyahu Dremencov, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, and Neuroken Consulting Healthy Ageing Campus Netherlands, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guiard, Bruno P, Author.

Contributor:

Guiard, Bruno P.

Dremencov, Eliyahu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affective disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Saif Zone, Sharjah [United Arab Emirates] : Bentham Science Publishers, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph is a collection of selected articles on the subject of mood disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. It is divided into 3 sections: 1) Research methods in psychopharmacology - which highlights some established experimental techniques to study mood disorders in human and relevant animal models 2) Pathophysiology of mood disorders - which explains the physiological and pharmacological mechanisms responsible for mood disorders and 3) New strategies for the treatment of mood disorders - a concluding section that provides recent examples on the beneficial effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in the relief of mood disorders. The e-book serves as a primer for graduate students and researchers interested in the physiology and treatment of affective psychological disorders.

Contents:

part I. Research methods in psychopharmacology

part II. Pathophysiology of mood disorders

part III. New strategies for the treatment of mood disorders.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2014).

ISBN:

9781608054671

1608054675

OCLC:

874163467