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The neuroscience of clinical psychiatry :

Higgins, Edmund S.

The neuroscience of clinical psychiatry : the pathophysiology of behavior and mental illness / Edmund S. Higgins, Mark S. George ; illustrations by Edmund S. Higgins. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007. - xiii, 301 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index.

Historical perspective -- Neuroanatomy -- Cells of the nervous system -- Neurotransmitters -- Receptors and signaling the nucleus -- Hormones and the brain -- Adult development and plasticity -- Pain -- Pleasure -- Appetite -- Anger and aggression -- Sleep -- Sex and the brain -- Social attachment -- Memory -- Intelligence -- Attention -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Schizophrenia -- Alzheimer's disease.

9780781766555 0781766559

2007004849

101298713 DNLM


Mental illness--Pathophysiology.
Psychiatry.
Mental Disorders--physiopathology.
Nervous System--physiopathology.
Neuropsychology--methods.

RC483.H54 2007

616.89

2007 G-946 WM 140 / H636n 2007

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