Product Description: Explore the brain and discover the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence. The authors, research scientists with years of experience in alcohol and drug studies, provide definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching illustrations to discuss the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs...read more

Product Description: In this book you will explore the brain and see what happens when drugs affect its functions. Filled with an array of useful definitions and amazing historic discoveries about the nervous system, this book will bring you up to speed on the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs, including alcohol, marijuana, anxiolytics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, cocaine, and opiates...read more

Product Description: Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price. Beginning with a detailed look at individual drugs and their effects on the brain, Neurochemistry of Abused Drugs considers the changes in neurotransmitter levels and discusses the relationship of these changes to the nature and phenomenon of addiction...read more

Product Description: Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Abused Drugs is a concise and focused volume devoted to the metabolism and measurable effects of drugs on the human body...read more

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Product Description: Increasing interest in neuroscience research has uncovered a need to understand how behavioural and other psychological mechanisms can be linked directly to a brain fucntion. Increased knowledge of operant behaviour and its quantification has afforded behavioural insights into basic mechanisms underlying drug-taking behaviour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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