Table of Contents

Introduction to the 73rd meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. The biology of stress: from periphery to brain. Norepinephrine and serotonin transporters: progress on molecular targets of antidepressants. Excitotoxicity in the development of corticolimbic alterations in schizophrenic brain. Dissolution of cerebral cortical mechanisms in patients with schizophrenia. Linkage and molecular genetics of infantile autism. Epidemiology and behavioral genetics of schizophrenia. Postmortem studies of suicide victims. Schizophrenia: postmortem studies. Brain circuits and brain function: implications for psychiatric diseases. Peptides and affective disorders. Mechanism of action of antidepressants: monoamine hypotheses and beyond. Dopamine and schizophrenia revisited. Pathophysiology of schizophrenia: insights from neuroimaging. Abnormal frontotemporal interactions in patients with schizophrenia. Mechanism of action of atypical antipsychotic drugs: an update. Overview and discussion. Index.

Promotional Information

The quality of the science is superb and that is to be expected given that the contributors include such recognized neuroscientists as Akil, Benes, Charney, Ciaranello, Davis, Goldman-Rakic, Kleinman, Mann, Matthysse, Meltzer, Nemeroff, Tsuang, and Weinberger... The book is loaded with state-of-the-art advances and new knowledge in several key areas of neuropsychobiology of mood and psychotic disorders. I strongly recommend it to psychiatrists and other neuroscientists as well as to trainees in psychiatry, neurology, and psychology. Henry A. Nasrallah, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio

About the Author

Stanley J. Watson, Ph.D., M.D., is Associate Director, Research Scientist, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan. He is Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Theophile Raphael Professor of Neurosciences also at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Reviews

For the researcher or clinician interested in a deeper understanding of developments in the biologic study of major mental illnesses, this volume is highly recommended.

This excellent book is warmly recommended to anyone who wants an up-to-date cross-section of biological psychiatry in the 1990s, and especially to those who have enough enthusiasm and stamina to roll up their sleeves and get on with it themselves.