Nicotine in Psychiatry
Subtitle: Psychopathology and Emerging Therapeutics (Clinical Practice, No. 48)
Contributors: Melissa, M.D. Piasecki (Editor); Paul A., M.D. Newhouse (Editor)
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780880487979
Subjects: Medical toxicology; Psychiatry; Tobacco habit; Psychology; Drug Addiction (Psychiatric Aspects); Smoking And Health; adverse effects; Therapeutic use; Psychopathology - Addiction; Neurology - General; Psychiatry - General; Tobacco use; Psychotherapy - General; Nicotine; Physiological effect
First sentence: Although acetylcholine was identified as a peripheral neurotransmitter in the early part of the century, it was only in the late 1950s that evidence of neurotransmission within the central nervous system was produced by means of demonstration of cholinergic transmission at motor neuron-Renshaw cell synapses in the spinal cord (Curtis and Eccles 1958).