Tables of Contents for Essential Psychopharmacology

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Part I. Neuroscientific Basis of Clinical Psychopharmacology: 1. Principles of chemical neurotransmission

2. Receptors and enzymes as the targets of drug action

3. Special properties of receptors

4. Chemical neurotransmission as the target of disease actions

Part II. Psychiatric Medications and Psychiatric Disorders: 5. Depression

6. Antidepressants and mood stabilizers

7. Anxiolytics and sedative-hypnotics

8. Drug treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder and phobic disorders

9. Psychosis and schizophrenia

10. Conventional neuroleptic drugs for schizophrenia and novel antipsychotic agents

11. Cognitive enhancers and neuroprotective agents

12. Drugs of abuse.