Amazon.com description: Product Description: Geared toward young adults and filled with interesting case studies and sidebars, the user-friendly text in this series provides readable overviews of brain chemistry and function, the history of psychiatric drug treatment, possible adverse reactions, and alternative therapies. Each volume includes glossary sidebars, as well as Further Reading, and For More Information sections. This series will make psychiatric disorders and their treatments understandable to parents, teachers, and young people alike.