
Neurotherapeutics
Emerging Strategies
Humana Press Inc.
Published on 6. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 434 pages
978-1-4757-5978-5 (ISBN)
Description
Neuroscience's inherent complexity and rapid growth mean that no one can keep abreast of all the changes across the field. We each bring a necessarily narrow perspective. Neurotherapeutics: Emerg ing Strategies is an attempt to provide some diverse perspectives within the hunt for new drugs to treat central nervous system diseases. The book's premise is that the search for new drugs is based on an understanding ofboth clinical and basic sciences. Neurotherapeu tics: Emerging Strategies begins with psychiatry and concludes with neurological disorders. Each chapter examines a disease, including clinical features and existing treatments, but the emphasis is on current concepts of underlying causes and novel strategies for drug discovery arising from these possible mechanisms. Participating authors include basic neuroscientists, industry-based pharmacolo gists and chemists, and clinicians. The chapters describe the status of the existing disease treat ments, and when treatments are lacking, the approach is more basic science oriented. When there is a long history of treatment, there is greater emphasis on those therapies. However, all the chapters seem to reflect the benefits of cloning, since the availability of receptor subtypes now promises the opportunity for greater specificity of drug effects. Modulation of second messengers is another new and recur ring theme. And in the chapter on cachexia, cytokines are explored both as drugs and drug targets. Neurotherapeutics: Emerging Strategies reflects the complex ity of the nervous system, but the overriding message is hope for new and better drugs to treat those diseases that rob us of ourselves.
Reviews / Votes
...would be of use to the clinician wanting a better understanding of current research approaches in the neurosciences or to the basic scientist wanting a quick update on areas beyond their expertise.-Journal of Medicinal ChemistryMore details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Language
English
Place of publication
Totowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 434 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-5978-5 (9781475759785)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-59259-466-5
Schweitzer Classification
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11/1995
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11/1995
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Content
1 Schizophrenia Treatment Strategies.- 2 Affective Disorders.- 3 Anxiety and Panic Disorders.- 4 Acute and Chronic Disease: Neurological Manifestations.- 5 Opioids and the Control of Pain.- 6 Epilepsy.- 7 Neuroprotective Strategies for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke.- 8 Huntington's Disease.- 9 Parkinson's Disease.- 10 Alzheimer's Disease.