Cognitive Enhancing Drugs (Milestones in Drug Therapy)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: February 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9783764369828
Subjects: Pharmacology; Pain Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; therapeutic use; Neurology - General; Medical / Pharmacology; cholinesterase; cns; cognitive disorders; functional brain imaging; learning and memory processes; neural drug targets; neuropeptide/hormone receptors; neurotransmitter receptors; pharmacotherapy; Cognition; Mechanism of action; Nootropic Agents; drug effects
First sentence: It is difficult to pinpoint the birth of cognitive pharmacology, i.e., a study of the effect of drugs on the behavioral and neurochemical processes we attribute to higher order thinking, learning, and memory.