Neurobiology of affective disorders
Subtitle: the Third Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium on Neuroscience Research : October 25-26, 1991, Yale University School of Medicine
Publisher: Raven Health Care Communications
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780781700887
Subjects: Affective disorders; Congresses; Chemotherapy; Antidepressants; Antidepressive Agents; Therapeutic use; Mood Disorders; Drug therapy; Physiopathology; Troubles affectifs; Congrès; Aspect physiologique; Chimiothérapie; Physiological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Biological basis of major affective disorders: an overview / George R. Heminger; title: Aminergic "link hypothesis" of affective disorders: a molecular view of therapy-resistant depression / Fridolin Sulser; title: G proteins as a target of antidepressant action / Mark M. Rasenick; title: Regionally selective effects in brain of typical and atypical antidepressants / Alan Frazer; title: Is the serotonin system still a promising target for the future of pharmacotherapy of affective disorders? / Claude de Montigny; title: Organization of noradrenergic and serotonergic receptor systems in the cerebral cortex of suicide victims: implications for the pathogenesis of suicidal behavior and depression / J. John Mann; title: Serotonin depletion studies in affective disorders / Pedro L. Delgado; title: Corticotropin-releasing factor neurotransmission in the locus coeruleus: link between stress and depression / Rita J. Valentino; title: Molecular mechanisms underlying effects of chronic stress and antidepressants / Ronald S. Duman; title: Glucocorticoid actions in the hippocampus: implications for affective disorders / Bruce S. McEwen.; title: (cont) Molecular and integrative mechanisms of stress responsiveness: implications for studying affective disorders / Huda Akil; title: Brain's stress axis and affective disorders: basic and clinical studies / Stanley J. Watson, Jr.; title: Role of corticotropin-releasing factor in the pathogenesis of depression: laboratory and clinical investigations / Charles B. Nemeroff; title: Episode and stress sensitization in the longitudinal course of affective disorders: role of proto-oncogenes and other transcription factors / Robert M. Post.