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Cocaine in the brain
- Title
- Cocaine in the brain / edited by Nora D. Volkow and Alan C. Swann.
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QP801.C68 C627 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 188 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- Abstract: In discussing the consequences of cocaine use on individuals and society, this volume presents up-to-date research on brain mechanisms of cocaine use including the historical/social and psychological perspectives. The publication assists readers in comprehending the cocaine problem from multiple perspectives, beginning with the neural mechanisms of craving and leading to new approaches to developing effective diagnostic, treatment, and prevention programs. Topics include: populations at risk for cocaine use and subsequent consequences, synaptic effects and adaptations of cocaine, imaging techniques in the investigation of the effects of cocaine in the brain, and medical, endocrinological, and pharmacological aspects of cocaine addiction.
- Series Statement
- Mind and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Mind and medicine
- Subject
- Cocaine > Physiological effect
- Brain > Effect of chemicals on
- Cocaine abuse > Pathophysiology
- Brain > drug effects
- Cocaine > adverse effects
- Cocaine > pharmacology
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Brain > Effect of chemicals on
- Cocaine > Physiological effect
- Cocain
- Neuropharmakologie
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Drogenabhängigkeit
- Zentralnervensystem
- Neurophysiologie
- Cocaine addiction
- Drug abuse
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cocaine in the context of prior central nervous system stimulant epidemics / Burt Angrist -- Populations at risk for cocaine use and subsequent consequences / Edgar H. Adams, Beatrice A. Rouse, and Joseph C. Gfroerer -- Neural mechanisms of the reinforcing action of cocaine / Roy A. Wise -- Cocaine: synaptic effects and adaptations / Alan C. Swann -- Imaging techniques in the investigation of the effects of cocaine in the brain / Nora D. Volkow -- Pharmacology of cocaine / Charles Ashley and Robert A. Hitzemann -- Medical, endocrinological, and pharmacological aspects of cocaine addiction / Charles A. Dackis and Mark S. Gold -- Consequences and correlates of cocaine abuse: clinical phenomenology / Frank H. Gawin and Everett H. Ellinwood, Jr.
- ISBN
- 0813515645
- 9780813515649
- LCCN
- 89070177
- OCLC
- ocm20825263
- 20825263
- SCSB-1931666
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library