Calming the Brain
Subtitle: Benzodiazepines and Related Drugs from Laboratory to Clinic
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: October 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781841840529
Subjects: Psychiatry; Neurology - General; Pharmacology; Neuropsychopharmacology; Psychoneuroses; Medical / Nursing; Psychopathology - General; Medical; Psychiatry - General; Medical / Neurology; Psychology; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology
First sentence: Although herbal medicines have been used throughout history for the treatment of what would now be considered anxiety disorders and insomnia, the advent of chemically derived drugs prescribed on the basis of a biological model of brain function and dysfunction can be identified as the introduction of bromides by Sir Charles Locock, president of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1865.