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Behavioural models in psychopharmacology

By considering such conditions as anxiety, depression, mania and schizophrenia, feeding disorders, dementia, and drug dependence, this book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the adequacy of the behavioural procedures used by psychopharmacologists to model psychiatric disorders
Print Book, English, 1991
Cambridge University Press, 1991
540 pages
9780521391924, 052139192X
21408457
Contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Behavioural models in psychopharmacology P. Willner; Part II. Models of Anxiety: 2. Animal models of anxiety S. Green and H. Hodges; 3. Screening for anxiolytic drugs D. N. Stephens and J. S. Andrews; 4. Animal models of anxiety: a clinical perspective M. Lader; Part III. Models of Depression: 5. Animals models of depression P. Willner; 6. Screening for new antidepressant compounds W. Danysz; 7. The clinical relevance of animal models of depression J. F. W. Deakin; Part IV. Models of Eating Disorders: 8. Animal models of eating disorders A. M. J. Montgomery; 9. Screening methods for anorectic, anti-obesity and orectic agents J. Sepinwall and A. C. Sullivan; 10. Animals models of eating disorders: a clinical perspective D. V. Coscina and P. E. Garfinkel; Part V. Models of Mania and Schizophrenia: 11. M. Lyons; 12. Pharmacological evaluation of new antipsychotic drugs S. Ahlenius; 13. Animal models of schizophrenia and mania: clinical perspectives J. Cookson; Part VI. Models of Dementia: 14. Animal models of Alzheimer's disease and dementia (with an emphasis on cortical cholinergic systems) S. B. Dunnett and T. M. Barth; 15. Strategies for drug development in the treatment of dementia J. D. Salamons; 16. Dementia: the role of behavioural models H. J. Altman; Part VII. Models of Drug Abuse and Drug Dependence: 17. Animal models of drug abuse and dependence A. J. Goudies; 18. Screening for abuse and dependence liabilities D. J. Sanger; 19. The relevance of behavioural models of drug abuse and dependence liabilities to the understanding of drug misuse in humans R. Hartnoll; Index.