The Biology of depression
Subtitle: proceedings of a meeting of the Biological Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, held at Manchester University, 1985
By: edited by J.F.W. Deakin.
Contributors: Deakin, J. F. W.; Royal College of Psychiatrists. Biological Group.
Publisher: Gaskell; Distributed in North America by American Psychiatric Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London; [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Depression, Mental -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.; Neurotransmitters -- Pathophysiology -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: Monoamines, rewards and punishments / J.F.W. Deakin and T.J. Crow / Peter McGuffin and Randy Katz; value: Postmortem neurochemical findings in suicide and depression / S.J. Cooper [et al.]; value: 5HT neuroendocrinology / P.J. Cowen and I.M. Anderson; value: 5HT transport and the mediation of action of antidepressants / Keith Wood; value: The responsiveness of central alpha2 adrenoceptors in depression / S.A. Checkley [et al.]; value: Plantelet binding and neuroendocrine responses in depression / C.L.E. Katona [et al.]; value: Vanadium and the sodium pump in manic depressive psychosis / G.J. Naylor; value: Recent advances in the treatment of depression / E.S. Paykel and A.S. Hale; value: Antidepressants and monoamines / A.R. Green and G.M. Goodwin; value: Antidepressant drugs and the autonomic nervous system / E. Szabadi and C.M. Bradsaw.