Antipsychotic Drugs and Their Side-Effects

Name: Antipsychotic Drugs and Their Side-Effects
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ISBN: 9780120790357

ISBN-10: 0120790351

ISBN-13: 9780120790357

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas R. E. Barnes, Peter Jenner

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In line with other volumes in the Neuroscience Perspectives Series, this volume covers the background, pharmacology, molecular biology, and biochemistry of antipsychotic drugs, together with an overview assessment of the therapeutic considerations. Over the past 40 years, the effectiveness of conventional neuroleptic agents for psychotic illness has been offset by a wide range of adverse side-effects, including motor side-effects like parkinsonism. Studies show that lowering doses may still produce the antipsychotic effect while lessening the risk of side-effects. As all available antispychotic drugs are able to block dopamine, specifically D2 receptors, doses below the threshold level for…

Book details

List price: $118.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 1/6/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 287
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Contributors
Series Preface
Neuroscience Editorial Advisory Board
Preface
The pharmacology of the phenothiazines, butyrophenones, thioxanthines and diphenylbutylpiperidines	p. 3
The pharmacology of clozapine-like atypical antipsychotics	p. 27
Pharmacology and clinical properties of selective dopamine antagonists with focus on substituted benzamides	p. 45
Pre- and postsynaptic D[subscript 1] to D[subscript 5] dopamine receptor mechanisms in relation to antipsychotic activity	p. 65
Prediction of antipsychotic activity	p. 87
Effects of neuroleptics on neuronal and synaptic structure	p. 99
Brain imaging and antipsychotic drugs	p. 111
Pharmacokinetics of antipsychotic drugs	p. 127
The assessment of antipsychotic medication in clinical trials	p. 147
Indications for antipsychotic drugs	p. 157
Acute treatment	p. 169
Maintenance antipsychotic medication	p. 183
Depot neuroleptics	p. 205
The side-effects of antipsychotic drugs. I. CNS and neuromuscular effects	p. 213
The side-effects of antipsychotic drugs. II. Effects on other physiological systems	p. 249
Index	p. 277
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