Role Of Serotonin In Psychiatric Disorders

Herausgeber: Brown, Serena-Lynn; Praag, Herman M van

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138004764
• ISBN-10: 1138004766
• Artikelnr.: 40821305

Autorenporträt

Serena-Lynn Brown, Assistant Professor and Director, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Montefiore Medical Centre, New York. Herman M. Van Praag-Silverman Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Montefiore Medical Centre, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Why study Serotonin in Clinical Psychiatric Research? 2
Central Serotonin Receptors: Functional Correlates and Clinical Relevance 3
The Receptor Sensitivity Hypothesis of Antidepressant Function 4
Neuroendocrine Studies in Psychiatric Disorders 5 The Monoamine Hypothesis
of Depression: The case for Serotonin 6 The Role of Serotonin in the
Regulation of Anxiety 7 Is there a specific role for Serotonin in Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder 8 A Serotonergic Theory of Schizophrenia 9 Psychiatric
disorders of childhood: The role of Serotonin 10 Serotonin Dysregulation in
Bulimia Nervosa 11 Serotonin, Seasonality and Mood Disorders 12
Serotonergic Parameters of Aggression and Suicide 13 Beyond Serotonin