Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387766774 ISBN 13: 9780387766775

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain. Based on the AAPS-NIDA Frontiers in Science Symposium “Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapies,” this volume, representing focuses on the translation of fundamental addiction research to a variety of treatments, bringing together scientists with widely ranging expertise in synthetic and computational chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and neuroscience with researchers in drug discovery and development, drug targeting, and quantitative therapeutics.

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Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, genetic and behavioral pathways underlying drug addiction. Focusing on fundamental neurophysiological processes that overlap between drug addiction and other CNS disorders, this volume covers the translation of basic research into novel therapies, not only of drug addiction but a spectrum of related CNS disorders, including pain. Chapters are written by leading scientists with widely ranging expertise in synthetic and computational chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, neurosciences, drug discovery and development, drug targeting, and quantitative therapeutics, providing an unprecedented overview of a complex field of high societal signficance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387766774
• ISBN 13: 9780387766775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 805
• Editor: Rapaka Rao S., Sadée Wolfgang