Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology

Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at University of California, Riverside and at University of California, San Diego, Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK, and Chairman of the Neuroscience Education Institute, Carlsbad.

The fully-updated fifth edition covers the essential information required to become a neurobiologically empowered psychopharmacologist.

Preface to the Fifth Edition; CME Information; 1. Chemical Neurotransmission; 2. Transporters, Receptors and Enzymes as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action; 3. Ion Channels as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action; 4. Psychosis, Schizophrenia and the Neurotransmitter Networks Dopamine, Serotonin and Glutamate; 5. Targeting Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors for Psychosis, Mood and Beyond: So-Called 'Antipsychotics'; 6. Mood Disorders and the Neurotransmitter Networks Norepinephrine and Gamma Amino Butyric Acid (Gaba); 7. Treatments for Mood Disorders: So-Called 'Antidepressants' and 'Mood Stabilizers'; 8. Anxiety, Trauma and Treatment; 9. Chronic Pain and its Treatment; 10. Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness and their Treatment: Neurotransmitter Networks for Histamine and Orexin; 11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and its Treatment; 12. Dementia: Causes, Symptomatic Treatments and the Neurotransmitter Network Acetylcholine; 13. Impulsivity, Compulsivity and Addiction; Suggested Reading and Selected References; Index.