Brain Function and Psychotropic Drugs

by Heather Ashton

Book Overview

This book adopts a unique integrated approach to the neurosciences and psychopharmacology. Drawing from many disciplines, it describes the function of the brain systems governing human behavior--systems for waking and sleeping, learning and memory, reward and punishment. It considers how dysfunction in these systems can lead to a variety of disorders, including anxiety states and sleep disturbance, memory disorders, drug dependence, chronic pain syndromes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192622420
• ISBN13: 9780192622426
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"