3rd Edition
Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior The Pharmacology of Therapeutics and Drug Use Disorders
This third edition of Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior provides a comprehensive overview of the brain and explores the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence.
Dr Brick provides 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. Topics include: how psychoactive drugs affect cognition, behavior, and emotion; the brain/behavior relationship; the specific effects of major addictive and psychoactive drug groups; new definitions and thinking about abuse and dependence; and the medical uses of drugs, such as cannabinoids. A new chapter on biobehavioral markers explores how markers can guide the clinician in the diagnosis of some disorders. This book offers a quick reference guide which uses a balance of instruction, illustrations, tables, and formulas, that will give you a broad, lasting introduction to this intriguing subject.
Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior is an invaluable resource for students in the field, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, physicians and other health care professionals.
Introduction
1 What Is a Drug?
2 The Brain–Behavior Relationship
3 Pharmacokinetics
4 Functional Neuroanatomy: Where Do Psychoactive Drugs Act?
5 Neurophysiology: How Do Psychoactive Drugs Act?
6 Antidepressants: Drugs That Lift Us Up
7 Anxiolytics: Drugs That Calm Us Down at a Cost
8 Antipsychotics: Drugs That Make Us Sane
9 Stimulants: Drugs That Make Us High
10 Alcohol: The Socially Accepted Addictive Drug
11 Opioids: Drugs That Calm Our Pain
12 Inhalants: A Matter of Life and Breath!
13 Marijuana: The Sometimes Illegal Recreational Plant
14 Hallucinogens: Altering Reality or Helping?
15 Nicotine: Of What Value?
16 Addiction: The Chronic Medical Illness
17 Biobehavioral Markers of Substance Abuse Disorders
18 Forensic Issues in Psychopharmacology
Biography
John Brick, Ph.D., M.A., F.A.P.A. is a highly published author in psychopharmacology and the biomedical effects of alcohol and other drugs, national and international lecturer, and neuroscience trained research scientist in biological psychology.
“Drugs, the Brain and Behavior is a must have for those in any related field of medicine or academics. Either as a reference, or to simply enjoy from cover to cover, it will provide the reader with an in depth, but easy to understand comprehensive review of how drugs influence the brain to produce the different behaviors, both good and bad, that we observe clinically.”
Lee Tessler, MD, FACS, FAANS, Chief of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island, NY, USA
“The latest edition of Drugs, the Brain and Behavior provides excellent, up-to-date information on drug actions on the brain and their impact on society and individual behavior. The medical consequences of therapeutics and drug use disorders and treatment updates are particularly useful. Moreover, complex topics in pharmacology and neurochemistry are explained clearly and provide a valuable resource of information for a wide audience including health care professionals.”
Larissa A. Pohorecky, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology (Emeritus), Rutgers University Center of Alcohol and Drug Studies, Piscataway, NJ, USA
“As a clinician and researcher in maternal child health for over thirty years, “Drugs, the Brain and Behavior: The Pharmacology of Therapeutics and Drug Use Disorders” is my go source to incorporate this continually evolving area into my practice.
Dr Brick includes specifics on various drugs relating to recreational and clinical situations, and how they affect the human brain. He relays his years of research into a concise resource that is a benefit for the clinician.
Drugs, the Brain and Behavior: The Pharmacology of Therapeutics and Drug Use Disorders” Edition III is a leading source of information that is a true must have !!!!”
William P Stanell, MD FACOG, Fellow American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USA
