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This book is written for researchers, undergraduate studentsand postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitionerswho develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry andethnopharmacology or can be useful for their practice. Topics discussed includethe description of depression, its biochemical causes, the targets ofantidepressant drugs, animal and cell models commonly used in the research ofthis pathology, medicinal plants and bioactive compounds with antidepressantactivity used in traditional medicine, advances in nanotechnology for drugdelivery to the brain and finally the future challenges for researchersstudying this pathology.
List of contents
Depressive disorders: prevalence, costs and theories.- Traditional andnovel possible targets for antidepressant drugs.- Cell-based systems of depression: An overview.- Animalmodels of depression.- Prevalence of use of herbal medicinesand complementary and alternative medicine in Europe.- Medicinal plants offormer USSR used for treatment of depression.- Chinese herbal medicine usedagainst depression in China.- antidepressant medicinal plants and compoundsused in traditional medicines in North America.- antidepressant plant speciesfrom the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).- Oceania: antidepressantmedicinal plants.- Novel drugdelivery systems for herbal antidepressants.- Future strategies for depressiontreatment.
About the author
She is reviewer for more than 20 international journals focusing a broad range of scientific fields, such as natural products, analytical chemistry, neurosciences and biomedicine and she authored 25 publications in journals indexed to Journal Citation Reports from ISI Web of Knowledge. She also authored 2 book chapters, one of them on behalf of the CYTED action 112RT0460 “CORNUCOPIA” thematic network, 5 papers in conference proceedings, 4 oral communications and 15 posters in international meetings. Her total impact factor is 63.536 and her h-index is 11 (scopus database) or 9 (ISI Web of Knowledge). Since 2007, her papers received 254 citations from 191 peer-reviewed papers.
Summary
This book is written for researchers, undergraduate students
and postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners
who develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry and
ethnopharmacology or can be useful for their practice. Topics discussed include
the description of depression, its biochemical causes, the targets of
antidepressant drugs, animal and cell models commonly used in the research of
this pathology, medicinal plants and bioactive compounds with antidepressant
activity used in traditional medicine, advances in nanotechnology for drug
delivery to the brain and finally the future challenges for researchers
studying this pathology.
