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Role Of Serotonin In Psychiatric Disorders book cover

1st Edition

Role Of Serotonin In Psychiatric Disorders

Edited By Serena-Lynn Brown, Herman M. Van Praag Copyright 1991
366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge
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This is No 4 of a monograph's on Clinical and Experimental Psychiatry, which aims to keep track of important developments in Psychiatry, to summarize what has been achieved in particular fields and to bring together the view points obtained from disparate vantage points- to capture some of the excitement ongoing in modern psychiatry both in its clinical and experimental dimensions. This edition... Read more

1 Introduction: Why study Serotonin in Clinical Psychiatric Research? 2 Central Serotonin Receptors: Functional Correlates and Clinical Relevance 3 The Receptor Sensitivity Hypothesis of Antidepressant Function 4 Neuroendocrine Studies in Psychiatric Disorders 5 The Monoamine Hypothesis of Depression: The case for Serotonin 6 The Role of Serotonin in the Regulation of Anxiety 7 Is there a specific role for Serotonin in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 8 A Serotonergic Theory of Schizophrenia 9 Psychiatric disorders of childhood: The role of Serotonin 10 Serotonin Dysregulation in Bulimia Nervosa 11 Serotonin, Seasonality and Mood Disorders 12 Serotonergic Parameters of Aggression and Suicide 13 Beyond Serotonin

Biography

Serena-Lynn Brown, Assistant Professor and Director, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Montefiore Medical Centre, New York. Herman M. Van Praag-Silverman Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Montefiore Medical Centre, New York.

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