Drugs and Behavior An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology

Name: Drugs and Behavior An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology
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ISBN: 9780132197885

ISBN-10: 013219788X

ISBN-13: 9780132197885

Edition: 6th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: McKim

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For undergraduate courses in Drugs and Behavior Psychopharmacology, as well as graduate survey courses in Psychopharmacology. This text gives an up-to-date description of the field of Behavioral Pharmacology. It starts by describing basic pharmacological concepts of drug administration and pharmacokinetics, research methodology including clinical trials, tolerance and withdrawal, drug conditioning, addiction processes, and neuroscience of drug action. Each chapter, thereafter, applies these concepts to different classes of both recreational and therapeutic drugs. Each chapter includes a section on the history of the drug class that places the drug in its historical and social context. It is…

Book details

List price: $140.40
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 9.21" wide x 7.05" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Some Basic Pharmacology



Research Design and the Behavioral Analysis of Drug



Tolerance, Withdrawal, Sensitization, and Conditioning of Drug Effects



Neurophysiology, Neurotransmitters and the Nervous System



Dependence Addition and the Self-Administration of Drugs



Alcohol



Tranquilizers and the Sedative-Hypnotic



Solvents, Anaesthetics and Inhaled Substances



Tobacco and Nicotine



Caffeine and the Methylyzanthines



Psychomotor Stimulants



Opiates and Opioids



Antipsychotic Drugs



Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers



Cannabis



Hallucinogens, Phantasticants and Club Drugs