Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Human Geography - Softcover

McKim, William A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013220732X ISBN 13: 9780132207324

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1986

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 applies these concepts to different classes of both recreational and therapeutic drugs. Each chapter also includes a section on the history of the drug class which 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.

 

About this title

Synopsis

This text provides students with an introduction to the field of behavioral pharmacology and prepares them to analyze drug information from a variety of sources. The text describes the effects of drugs on behavior, and the various ways that behavior principles facilitate an understanding of both the actions of drugs and the way people use them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013220732X
• ISBN 13: 9780132207324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432