Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors
Adam C. Errington • Giuseppe Di Giovanni Vincenzo Crunelli Editors 2014 The Receptors Volume 27
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Placebo
Fabrizio Benedetti • Paul Enck • Elisa Frisaldi • Manfred Schedlowski Editors 2014 A recent meeting on placebo and nocebo responses, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, and held in Tuebingen (Germany) in January 2013, represented the starting point for inviting many scientists involved in experimental placebo and nocebo research to contribute to this volume by […]
Continue reading →Behavioral Neurobiology of Chronic Pain
Bradley K. Taylor • David P. Finn Editors 2014 Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences Volume 20 The physiological pain in humans that initially results from tissue injury is an unpleasant and aversive experience with sensory, cognitive, and motivational components. These interact to precipitate behavioral and psychological responses that serve essential survival functions, including protective behaviors […]
Continue reading →Adherence to Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia
Emilio Sacchetti Antonio Vita Alberto Siracusano Wolfgang Fleischhacker 2014 There is wide agreement that among the problems limiting the success of treatment for patients with serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, poor adherence to prescribed medication regimens is the most relevant and, at the same time, one of those potentially modifiable.
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Daniel Bar-Shalom • Klaus Rose Editors 2014 A Roadmap This is the first book of its kind that specifically addresses pediatric formulations in the context of drug development. Before you read it, we hope that you have asked yourself why such a book was not published 50 or 100 years earlier. When we were asked […]
Continue reading →Voltage Gated Sodium Channels
Peter C. Ruben Editor 2014 Just over 60 years ago, Hodgkin and Huxley first proposed the ionic basis of the action potential in neurons. Their insightful—and foresighted—work, based on experiments performed in squid giant axons, laid the groundwork for a new research field: ion channel biophysics. The elegance and importance of their work earned them […]
Continue reading →Pharmacological Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Pablo Avanzas • Peter Clemmensen Editors 2014 Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) require rapid intervention with pharmacologic therapies to treat and prevent coronary thromboembolism, and is essential to prepare the patient for revascularization procedures, especially percutaneous coronary intervention. The aims of treatment are to preserve patency of the coronary artery, augment blood flow through stenotic lesions, […]
Continue reading →Managing Renal Injury in the Elderly Patient
Michael Haase • Anja Haase-Fielitz Editors 2014
Continue reading →Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs
Ricardo Munoz Eduardo M. da Cruz Carol G. Vetterly David S. Cooper Donald Berry Editors 2014 In 2008, the first edition of the Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs was produced with the main purpose of providing health care practitioners with a tool to safely and consistently prescribe and administer cardiovascular drugs in children with cardiac […]
Continue reading →Metronomic Chemotherapy
Guido Bocci • Giulio Francia Editors 2014 Pharmacology and Clinical Applications Metronomic chemotherapy has arrived. In 2014 we are beginning to learn of phase III clinical trial results on this form of cancer treatment, defined by the continuous low-dose administration of conventional chemotherapy drugs. The emerging clinical data will be of paramount importance in allowing […]
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