Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stolerman, Ian P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Molecular Medicine.; Biomedicine general.

Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of psychoactive drugs on the functioning of the central nervous system at all levels of analysis, thus embracing cognition, behaviour, psychological states, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, gene expression and molecular biology. It includes, as an integ...