Drug Discovery for Nervous System Diseases

by Franz Hefti

Book Overview

The neurosciences have been an especially difficult field for drug discovery. Because of the huge complexity of the nervous system and poor understanding of most psychiatric and neurological diseases, most drugs currently available are the result of chance observations rather than a truly comprehensive approach. However, this situation has begun to change. Enormous progress in molecular biology has yielded breakthrough discoveries of the causes of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471465631
• ISBN13: 9780471465638
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"