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Author Regan, Ciaran.

Title Intoxicating minds : how drugs work / Ciaran Regan
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2001

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Description x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Maps of the mind
Maps of the mind.
Contents Preface and acknowledgements -- [ch.] 1 Mists of the mind -- [ch.] 2 Matters of doctrine -- [ch.] 3 Making the mind -- [ch.] 4 Neuronal discourse -- [ch.] 5 Nostri plena laboris -- [ch.] 6 An abyss yawns -- [ch.] 7 Making memory -- [ch.] 8 The lost truth and its restitution -- [ch.] 9 Funhouse mirrors -- [ch.] 10 The pharmacology of the infinite -- [ch.] 11 Drug driven -- Further readings -- Index
Summary "Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect a person's problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and includes lessons for the future." "Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index
Subject Psychopharmacology.
Psychopharmacology.
Genre/Form Popular Work.
LC no. 2001028078
ISBN 0231120168 alkaline paper
0231120176