A note on drug names -- Prologue -- pt. 1. Sweet oblivious antidotes -- 1. Clara's secret -- 2. The first blockbuster -- 3. The road to Prozac -- 4. Mother's little helper -- 5. A spectacular improvement -- pt. 2. Better psychotherapeutic drugs -- 6. Martha's panic -- 7. Gene variants -- 8. Animal psychiatry -- 9. Personalized psychiatric drugs -- 10. Little things in hand -- 11. Clara's prospects -- appendix. Trade names of psychiatric drugs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary
In 'Better Than Prozac', Samuel Barondes explains the science underlying rational design of the next generation of antidepressive agents, and how we have learned what we know about the molecular basis of the neuropharmacological treatment of mood disorders. He presents many case studies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index
