Product Description: Neuroprotection is a novel perspective for the treatment of disorders that lead to neurodegeneration and disabilities as a result of deterioration of neurons due to apoptosis, oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and other mechanisms...read more

Product Description: New and emerging directions in pharmaceutical research to better treat schizophrenia Although the dopamine hypothesis has been the cornerstone of schizophrenia therapeutics, it is clear that dopamine-based approaches do not treat all aspects of the disease...read more

Product Description: The psychotic symptoms of up to 30% of schizophrenic patients do not respond adequately to treatment with antipsychotic drugs, other than clozapine. These refractory patients are generally among the most disabled of all people with schizophrenia and require special assessment and treatment...read more

Product Description: The psychotic symptoms of up to 30% of schizophrenic patients do not respond adequately to treatment with antipsychotic drugs, other than clozapine. These refractory patients are generally among the most disabled of all people with schizophrenia and require special assessment and treatment...read more

Product Description: This text presents a broad-based review of the contemporary field of drugs for schizophrenia and is intended for graduate and postgraduate students and mental health professionals. It consists of 34 chapters by well-known experts in the field addressing basic mechanisms in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, neuropharmacology, experimental strategies, atypical antipsychotics, and other clinical issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For the first time in a single volume, distinguished experts address the complex issues -- issues rarely confronted in empirical studies of patients with schizophrenia -- and controversial research surrounding the assessment of negative symptoms and cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Internationally renowned experts in schizophrenia present an up-to-date review of this disorder's biological rather than psychological origins. Surveys new drugs for its treatment which are directed at novel biochemical targets in the brain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authors begin with the basic principles of neuroscience, diagnoses of mental disorders, and the action of drugs in the brain. Through case studies and discussions of major research, they then describe the nature of such major mental illnesses as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders, explaining what is known about the benefits, side effects, and limitations of various drug therapies...read more

Discusses research findings, clinical procedures, and theoretical bases for the application of orthomolecular principles to cases of schizophrenia, alcoholism, and drug addiction where perceptual dysfunction and chemical-nutritive brain imbalances are indicated. Bibliogs