Signal Transduction in Affective Disorders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 4431702105 ISBN 13: 9784431702108

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

Recent progress in brain science has been remarkable, especially with regard to advances in the area of neuroscience. Particularly in the past decade, there have been many important discoveries about signal transduction in the brain. With this background, biological research in affective disorders has become well developed in relation to neural signaling. However, this field is fairly hard to understand comprehensively, and there is relatively little integrative work with clinical psychiatry in spite of the involvement of a wide variety of scien­ tific disciplines. This monograph brings together up-to-date reviews from several young Japanese scientists who work in basic and clinical neuroscience. The intention is to explain in plain language the information that has evolved on signal transduction in terms of the biological abnormalities and mechanisms of anti­ depressants. The model shown on the cover (and on page 24) is intended to help the reader understand signal transduction in the brain and the patho­ physiology of affective disorders as well as the mechanisms of antidepressants.

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Synopsis

The past decade has seen remarkable advances in understanding the workings of the brain, and an essential part of that progress has resulted from important discoveries about signal transduction. Research in neuroscience has led to new insights into the relation between affective disorders and neural signaling. That research has not been widely integrated with clinical psychiatry, however, and until now a comprehensive presentation of research findings has not been published. This monograph brings together in one volume a review of the work of Japanese scientists in the fields of basic and clinical neuroscience. The papers compiled here are from the Symposium on Affective Disorders and Neuronal Signal Transduction and from the 11th Sapporo Neuroscience Meeting, both held in Sapporo, Japan, in 1996. The result is a comprehensive view of signal transduction in the brain and the pathophysiology of affective disorders as well as a review of the mechanisms of antidepressants.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4431702105
• ISBN 13: 9784431702108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Ozawa Hiroki, Saito Toshikazu, Takahata Naohiko