Psychpharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior, Second Edition PDF

Rating: (15 reviews) Author: Jerrold S. Meyer ISBN : 9780878935109 New from $76.89 Format: PDF

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Featuring extensive updates to all chapters, this 2nd edition includes a new and timely discussion of emerging substances of abuse and presentation of key biological concepts to help students understand current ideas about how mental illnesses arise and how drugs act on the brain to treat these illnesses. Also includes two new chapters.

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• Hardcover: 722 pages
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2nd edition (March 4, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087893510X
• ISBN-13: 978-0878935109
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Psychpharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior, Second Edition PDF

I agree with the three previous reviews that the book is easy to read, comprehensive, and has excellent illustrations and summary tables. But, at times there is too much complex information presented. The major problem is that with a cover date of 2004, it is sadly out of date, and thus fails to cover important new information, especially the significance of neuroregeneration (which as well known by 2004) and serotonin's role in the brain. My major specific criticism is that the chapter on affective disorders reviews very nicely the various therapeutic approaches especially to depression (with the above caveat about new findings), but the student reader comes away very confused, because there is no synthesis of the complex data and approaches. I understand very well how difficult that is to do, but at the end of this very long chapter, the student is left hanging. Let's hope a new edition will help.

By Adrian Dunn

I used the more advanced version of this text (Principles of Neuropsychopharmacology) for a course in neuropharmacology in graduate school. This an excellent version of that text aimed at the undergraduate level--like the longer version, this text is extremely well written, clear, concise, and filled with illustrations that really "illustrate" the points made in the text. I can't recommend this text more highly for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in psychopharmacology.

By Darioz Svabodas