Overview
Clinical issues.- Long-term course, comorbidity and long-term outcome in depressive disorders.- Do antidepressants really take several weeks to show effect?.- Commentary on the limitation of antidepressants in current use.- Mechanisms of action.- Mechanisms underlying the speed of onset of antidepressant response.- Calcium signaling cascades, antidepressants and major depressive disorders.- Markers of depression.- The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and antidepressant action.- Neuroendocrine markers of depression and antidepressant drug action.- Brain cytokines and the psychopathology of depression.- The future of antidepressants.- Chemistry and pharmacology of novel antidepressants.
- | Author: B. E. Leonard
- | Publisher: Birkhauser Basel
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 164 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 3764359331
- | ISBN-13: 9783764359331
