Role Of Serotonin In Psychiatric Disorders

Herausgeber: Brown, Serena-Lynn; Praag, Herman M. Van

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Produktbeschreibung

This is No 4 of a monograph's on Clinical and Experimental Psychiatry, which aims to keep track of important developments in Psychiatry, to summarize what has been achieved in particular fields and to bring together the view points obtained from disparate vantage points- to capture some of the excitement ongoing in modern psychiatry both in its clinical and experimental dimensions. This edition looks the role of Serotonin in Clinical Psychiatric Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• 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