Psychopharmacology : an introduction

Modern psychopharmaceuticals - neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquilizers and hypnotics history of psychopharmacology - psychopharmacology in the ancient world and Middle Ages, modern age effects of psychopharmaceuticals on healthy subjects - subjective experience and behaviour - the subject of pharmacopsychology electrical correlates of brain activity - effects of psychopharmaceuticals on the wake EEG, the sleep polygram and evoked potentials mechanism of action of psychopharmaceuticals - some basic neurobiological concepts clinical research in psychopharmacology - protection of the individual patient, predictor research drugs and memory - effects of neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquilizers, psychostimulants and nootropics psychopharmaceuticals and the treatment of mental disorders - neuroleptics and the treatment of schizophrenia economic aspects of psychopharmacology - effects of psychopharmacology on psychiatry and psychology.