Description
Book SynopsisThis text offers a comprehensive introduction to molecular biology, genetics, and neurobiology relevant to psychiatry. Generously illustrated chapters are organized to be read at both an introductory and a more advanced level.
Trade ReviewThis brief but important book fills a gap between clinical psychiatry and the rapidly evolving field of molecular neuroscience.
* New England Journal of Medicine *
I enthusiastically recommend this concise text to anyone interested in how molecular biology may contribute to advances in psychiatry in future decades. Undoubtedly, this book will be used extensively by medical students and psychiatry residents who will want to be conversant with the molecular foundations of psychiatry as they prepare to practice in the next millennium.
* The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences *
An outstanding job and makes data accessible to anyone unfamiliar with modern cellular and molecular biology. It is an excellent book.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction to molecular biology. Overview of synaptic neurotransmission. Overview of neuropsychopharmacology. Mechanisms of neural plasticity. Drug-induced neural plasticity: how psychotropic drugs work. Overview of psychiatric genetics. Toward a new psychiatric neuroscience.
