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Handbook of Psychopharmacology : Volume 15 New Techniques in Psychopharmacology, Paperback / softback Book

Handbook of Psychopharmacology : Volume 15 New Techniques in Psychopharmacology Paperback / softback

Edited by Leslie L., PhD Iversen, Susan D., PhD Iversen, Solomon H. Snyder

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Volume 15 of Handbook of Psychopharmacology represents the first of a new series of volumes whose aim is to bring earlier sections of the work up to date by describing the latest developments in the field.

It is now seven years since the first Handbook volumes on Basic Neuropharmacology were published, and there have been many important advances.

As in many other areas in science, progress in this field has depended to a considerable extent on the availability of new experimental methods, and Volume 15 reviews some major recent developments, including new autoradiographic techniques that allow direct visualization of drug and transmitter receptors in the nervous system, and the pinpointing of the precise locations of the changes in brain metabolism elicited by various drug treatments.

Volumes 16 and 17 will cover two of the most active areas for basic research in psychopharmacology at the moment: the characterization of drug and transmitter receptors in brain by radioligand binding techniques, and studies of the role of small peptides in brain function.

The latter area, in particular, illustrates how rapidly progress continues to be made in basic research on the mechanisms of chemical communication within the nervous system.

Seven years ago when the Handbook first appeared none of the opioid peptides (enkephalins and endorphins) had yet been identified.

Since then a whole new area of basic biological research has focused on these substances, and in addition we know of more than thirty other neuropeptides with putative eNS transmitter functions.

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