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Addiction

Inglese · Tascabile

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Klappentext Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library (OPL) series! this pocketbook gives a clear and comprehensive overview of the brain science underpinning addiction and how this helps explain the current and future therapeutics for the range of addictions. Zusammenfassung Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series! this pocketbook is a clear and comprehensive overview of the brain science underpinning addiction and how this helps explain the current and future therapeutics for the range of addictions! using full colour images to enhance understanding. Addiction focuses on the nature of addiction as a brain disorder that includes a range of different behavioural traits such as impulsivity and reward dependence! and discusses thecritical role of kinetic and pharmacological factors. The text explains how the primary pharmacological targets of drugs of abuse are now understood! the relation to the variable nature of addiction to different substances! and how this may lead to new approaches to treatment. 1. What is addiction? ; 2. Burden of addiction ; 3. Key elements of addiction ; 4. Neurobiological processes in addiction ; 5. Drug pharmacokinetics and abuse liability ; 6. Pharmocodynamics of addictive substances ; 7. The dopamine system and addiction ; 8. The GABA System and Addiction ; 9. The Glutamate System and Addiction ; 10. The Opioid System and Addiction ; 11. Conclulsion and overview

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Autori Liam Nestor, David Nutt, David Nestor Nutt
Editore Oxford University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 26.09.2013
 
EAN 9780199685707
ISBN 978-0-19-968570-7
Pagine 104
Dimensioni 132 mm x 200 mm x 8 mm
Serie Oxford Psychiatry Library
Oxford Psychiatry Library
Categoria Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina

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