The Neuropsychiatric Complications of Stimulant Abuse: Volume 120 (International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 120) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128029781 ISBN 13: 9780128029787

Publisher: Academic Press, 2015

Synopsis

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume concentrates on the neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse.

• Brings together cutting-edge research on the neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse

• Emerging topics: stimulants, amphetamines, legal highs, designer drugs, neuropsychiatric complications.

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Review:

The book ‘The neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse’ gives a broad overview on effects of psychostimulants that may lead to disastrous neurological and psychiatric consequences causing a permanent harm when misused. However, their potential to enhance cognition could perhaps still lead to an expanded beneficial role.

About the Author:

Dr Pille Taba is an Associate Professor of Neurology of the University of Tartu, President of the Estonian Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons, and Head of the Neurology Commission for the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs. She serves as a member of the Education Committee and Secretary Elect of European Section of the International Movement Disorders Society, and of the Scientific Advisory Group of Neurology of the European Medicines Agency.

Dr Pille Taba was graduated from the University of Tartu, Estonia, and received her postgraduate medical training at the University of Vienna, the Karlstad University Hospital, and the Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology. Her research interests have been focused on movement disorders: Parkinson’s disease and toxic parkinsonism, in collaboration with the University College London and University of Helsinki, and neuropinfections. Pille Taba has been an invited speaker at many international congresses and educational courses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128029781
• ISBN 13: 9780128029787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Taba Pille, Lees Andrew John, Sikk Katrin