English-speaking scientists start with one vast advantage: the bulk of the world's scientific transactions are conducted in English. There are many who would go further and say that any scientific work of importance is published in English. This book, which is, in effect, the tip of a large iceberg, gives them the lie! In the Soviet Union alone we have a vast wealth of expertise supported by a treasury of books and publications, but it is effectively cut off from Western scrutiny by the language barrier. It therefore seems timely to lift the curtain a little and put some of the best of it on display. In this excellent compilation, Professor Valdman and Dr. Burov have assembled a cast list of leading Soviet scientists who provide us with a refreshingly different slant on a set of problems of con cern to neuroscientists throughout the world. These scientific presentations are neither better, nor worse than but, rather, com plementary to Western pharmacological thinking. Traditional Soviet approaches to animal psychology are here coupled with sophisticated latter-day neurochemistry and neurophysiology and, in the process, provide us with new insights into the molecular bases of animal responses to environment and to certain drugs. Apart from shedding new light on many contemporary problems, the findings reported here provide an important window on the thought processes of the foremost neuroscientists of the Soviet Union. This book cannot fail to be of interest to all who work in this expanding (and exciting) area. M.
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978-1-4684-1656-5 (9781468416565)
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10.1007/978-1-4684-1656-5
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Emotional Behavior.- Psychophysiological Behavior and Pharmacological Aspects.- Combined Method for Evaluating Emotional States and Individual Response of Cats under Conditions of Social Interaction.- Factor Analysis of Emotional/Behavioral Reactions in Cats of Different Types.- Hereditary Traits of Animals with Different Types of Reaction to Stress and Benzodiazepine Tranquilizers.- Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Benzodiazepine Action on Emotional/Behavioral Responsiveness.- Psychophysiological and Neurochemical Analysis of Benzodiazepine Tranquilizers' Activating Effect.- Peptidergic and Neurochemical Aspects.- Neurotransmitter and Peptidergic Mechanisms of Intraspecies Aggression and Sociability.- Psychotropic Effect of Tuftsin, a Natural Phagocytosis-stimulating Peptide, and Some of its Analogs.- Monoaminergic Mechanisms of Psychotropic Action of Short Peptides.- The GABA System as a Factor in Adaptation and Pharmacological Treatment of Stress.- Neurochemical Pharmacology of GABA-ergic Drugs.- Analysis of Dopamine Receptor Supersensitivity After Chronic Neuroleptic Treatment in Rats.- Neuroleptics - Allosteric Tyrosine Hydroxylase Regulators.- Correlation Between the Affinity of Antidepressants for Membranes and Their Influence on Monoamine Transport.- Drug Dependence.- Psychophysiological and Genetic Factors Responsible for Alcohol and Morphine Dependence in Animals.- The Role of Catecholamines and Serotonin in the Formation and Maintenance of Susceptibility to Alcohol.- The Importance of Some CNS Peptides in the Development of Experimental Alcoholism.- Endocrine Factors in the Pathogenesis of Experimentally-induced Alcoholism.- The Role of Reward and Punishment Brain Systems in the Development of Drug Dependence.- Characteristics and Mechanisms ofTolerance to Benzodiazepines.
