Cambridge Medical Reviews: Neurobiology and Psychiatry: Volume 2 (Cambridge Medical Reviews: Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Series Number 2)
Cambridge University Press, 11/18/1993
EAN 9780521434836, ISBN10: 0521434831
Hardcover, 238 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This book was originally published in 1993. At the time of publication, the neurobiological basis of psychiatric disorder was a rapidly expanding field of study, primarily as a result of developments in the basic neurosciences. Neurobiology and Psychiatry served as a regular forum for evaluation and dissemination of information in this fundamental field of biological psychiatry. Topics selected for review illustrated the application of a range of neurobiological techniques to major psychiatric disorders, providing an in-depth review of work in this field. The intended readership included established research workers in the field, postgraduate psychiatrists, psychiatric trainees and other clinical and laboratory workers.
Contributors
Preface
1. Molecular genetics and the major psychoses M. Gill and C. Walsh
2. Alzheimer's disease and the β-amyloid persecutor protein J. Hardy
3. The biochemistry of tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease J. M. Gallo
4. Cytoarchtectonic and developmental studies in schizophrenia P. Falkai and B. Bogerts
5. Neuroendocrine developments in psychiatric research J. A. Bearn and P. W. Raven
6. From antibody to gene in schizophrenia
a review of the technology and a progress report W. G. Honer and J. L. Kennedy
7. Neurotrophins and neurodegenerative disease D. Dawbarn, S. J. Allen and H. MacGowan
8. The biology of mental handicap A. J. Holland
9. HIV infection and the brain
an examination of clinical and pathological effects I. P. Peverell and P. L. Lantos
10. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
applications in psychiatry M. S. Keshavan and J. W. Pettigrew
Index.