Fundamentals of Psychopharmacology

The text gives neuroscientists and psychiatrists an overview of psychopharmacology - one of the most rapidly advancing fields in modern science. The scope of the subject covers the use of drugs and other chemical agents as tools to enable the researcher to investigate how the brain functions. Growing maturation of this field has led to many advances such as the increase in the number of disorders responsive to drug treatment, and so this third edition has been updated and expanded to cover the developments and also give more detail for experienced researchers.