Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Human Geography - Softcover

McKim, William A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132215322 ISBN 13: 9780132215329

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1990

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 introduction to the field not only discusses the effects of drugs on behaviour but also the various ways that behaviour principles help to form an understanding of both the functions of drugs and why people use them. It reviews the basic principles and concepts of pharmacology, psychology and neurophysiology in order to provide the reader with a background understanding of the subject. The text then proceeds to examine drug classes and details the specific drugs within them. The chapters allow students to compare the various properties of drugs and each class of drugs. Features of this second edition include an enlarged background section with two new chapters on antipsychotics, and antidepressants and antimanics; each analyzing the development, testing and administration of psychotherapeutic drugs. A new chapter examines addiction and drug dependence whilst new chapter summaries and case histories are also provided.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0132215322
• ISBN 13: 9780132215329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352