Brain Circuitry and Signaling in Psychiatry: Basic Science and Clinical Implications (Progress in Psychiatry) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088048957X ISBN 13: 9780880489577

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This text chronicles the next advances in our knowledge of psychiatric neuroscience. It uses a teaching methodology that integrates the clinical aspects of psychiatric disorders with their neurobiology. It begins with by looking at functional neural circuitry and neural signalling pathways, and then presents current knowledge on the neuroatomic and neurochemical mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, addiction, anxiety,depression, bipolar disorder, and dementia/Alzheimer's disease. Each chapter focuses on a particular disorder and features the same four divisions - clinical presentation, neural circuitry, signalling pathways, and psychopharmacology.

About this title

About the Author

Gary B. Kaplan, M.D., is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Ronald P. Hammer Jr., Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine and Laboratory of Research in Psychiatry, New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

The 1990s, appropriately termed "the decade of the brain," witnessed unprecedented advances in our knowledge of psychiatric neuroscience. Yet with every advance, we realized afresh that we were still in the beginning stages of a much longer journey.

This text chronicles the next step of that journey. Structured around a proven teaching methodology that uniquely integrates the clinical aspects of psychiatric disorders with their neurobiology, this volume begins with two introductory chapters on functional neural circuitry and neural signaling pathways. The remaining six chapters present current knowledge on the neuroanatomic and neurochemical mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, addiction, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and dementia/Alzheimer's disease. For clarity and consistency, each chapter focusing on a specific disorder features the same four divisions--clinical presentation, neural circuitry, signaling pathways, and psychopharmacology.

Meticulously researched and clearly written by 15 contributors--all recognized experts from leading research and teaching institutions in the United States--this compact and extensively illustrated volume stands out in the literature because it combines readability and practicality with the breadth and depth typically found only in far lengthier works. Psychiatric practitioners, residents, and students alike will welcome this informative, easy-to-read text, which will also be of special interest to mental health and pharmaceutical industry professionals, and of general interest to anyone who wants to know more about the biology of psychiatric illness.

From the Inside Flap

The 1990s, appropriately termed "the decade of the brain," witnessed unprecedented advances in our knowledge of psychiatric neuroscience. Yet with every advance, we realized afresh that we were still in the beginning stages of a much longer journey.

This text chronicles the next step of that journey. Structured around a proven teaching methodology that uniquely integrates the clinical aspects of psychiatric disorders with their neurobiology, this volume begins with two introductory chapters on functional neural circuitry and neural signaling pathways. The remaining six chapters present current knowledge on the neuroanatomic and neurochemical mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, addiction, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and dementia/Alzheimer's disease. For clarity and consistency, each chapter focusing on a specific disorder features the same four divisions -- clinical presentation, neural circuitry, signaling pathways, and psychopharmacology.

Meticulously researched and clearly written by 15 contributors -- all recognized experts from leading research and teaching institutions in the United States -- this compact and extensively illustrated volume stands out in the literature because it combines readability and practicality with the breadth and depth typically found only in far lengthier works. Psychiatric practitioners, residents, and students alike will welcome this informative, easy-to-read text, which will also be of special interest to mental health and pharmaceutical industry professionals, and of general interest to anyone who wants to know more about the biology of psychiatric illness.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088048957X
• ISBN 13: 9780880489577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Kaplan MD Gary B., Hammer Jr PhD Ronald P.