Charney and Nestler’s Neurobiology of Mental Illness

Dennis S. Charney, MDAnne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiPresident for Academic AffairsMount Sinai Health SystemProfessor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, andPharmacological SciencesNew York, NY>Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhDNash Family Professor of NeuroscienceDirector, Friedman Brain InstituteDean for Academic AffairsIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiChief Scientific Officer of the Mount Sinai Health SystemNew York, NY>Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhDG. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics and Genomic SciencesDeputy Chair, Department of PsychiatryDirector, Seaver Autism Center for Research and TreatmentIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY>Elisabeth B. Binder. MDDirector, Department of Genes and EnvironmentMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry>Joshua A. Gordon, MDDirector, National Institute of Mental HealthBethesda, MD >Marina R. PicciottoCharles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and ProfessorChild Study Center, of Neuroscience and of PharmacologyDirector, Division of Molecular PsychiatryDeputy Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of PsychiatryDeputy Director, Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceCo-Director, Neuroscience Research Training ProgramYale Department of PsychiatryNew Haven, CTUSA

Charney and Nestler's Neurobiology of Mental Illness, Sixth Edition provides a concise and compelling overview of everything that is known today about all major forms of mental illness and the experimental tools that scientists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians use to advance our understanding still further. The chapters are written in layered ways to be accessible to beginners-early medical or graduate students-yet still revealing and insightful for today's experts alike. Each chapter begins with a summary and a list of key concepts that helpfully orient the reader and reinforce the most important take away messages. Didactic figures further enhance the clarity of the information conveyed.