Nicotine Psychopharmacology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henningfield, Jack E. (Editor), London, Edythe D. (Editor), Pogun, Sakire (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 192
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Neuropsychology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

The fact that tobacco ingestion can affect how people feel and think has been known for millennia, placing the plant among those used spiritually, honori?cally, and habitually (Corti 1931; Wilbert 1987). However, the conclusion that nicotine - counted for many of these psychopharmacological effects...