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The Neuroscience of Cocaine
1st Edition
Mechanisms and Treatment
Editors:
Victor Preedy
eBook ISBN: 9780128037928
Hardcover ISBN: 9780128037508
Imprint: Academic Press
Published Date: 16th May 2017
Page Count: 774
Description
The Neuroscience of Cocaine: Mechanisms and Treatment explores the complex effects of this drug, addressing the neurobiology behind cocaine use and the psychosocial and behavioral factors that impact cocaine use and abuse. This book provides researchers with an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms behind cocaine use, and aids them in deriving new pharmacological compounds and therapeutic regimens to treat dependency and withdrawal symptoms.
Cocaine is one of the most highly abused illicit drugs worldwide and is frequently associated with other forms of drug addiction and misuse, but researchers are still struggling to understand cocaine’s neuropharmacological profile and the mechanisms of its effects and manifestations at the cognitive level. Cessation of cocaine use can lead to numerous adverse withdrawal conditions, from the cellular and molecular level to the behavioral level of the individual user. Written by worldwide experts in cocaine addiction, this book assists neuroscientists and other addiction researchers in unraveling the many complex facets of cocaine use and abuse.
Key Features
- Contains in each chapter an abstract, key facts, mini dictionary of terms, and summary points to aid in understanding
- Illustrated in full color
- Provides unique full coverage of all aspects of cocaine and its related pathology
- Provides researchers with an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms behind cocaine use, and aids them in deriving new pharmacological compounds and therapeutic regimens to treat dependency and withdrawal symptoms
Readership
Researchers and advanced students in neuroscience, pharmacology, psychopathology, and addiction, as well as drug-abuse workers, public-health workers, and physicians treating addiction
Table of Contents
Part 1. Cocaine, Behavior, and Psychopathological Effects
Part 2. Effects of Cocaine Misuse on Neurological Function and Features
Part 3. Pharmacology and Neuropharmacology
Part 4. Withdrawal and Abstinence
Part 5. Cocaine as a Component of Dual-Use and Polydrug Use or Poly Addictions
Part 6. Cellular Effects and Molecular Biology of Cocaine
Part 7. Treatments for Cocaine Misuse and Dependency and Related Features
Details
- No. of pages:
- 774
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2017
- Published:
- 16th May 2017
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780128037928
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780128037508
About the Editor
Victor Preedy
Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC is a senior member of King's College London. He is also Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.
Professor Preedy has longstanding academic interests in substance misuse especially in relation to health and well being. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Drug and Alcohol Dependence and a founding member of the Editorial Board of Addiction Biology. In his career Professor Preedy was Reader at the Addictive Behaviour Centre at The University of Roehampton, and also Reader at the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London; UCL). Professor Preedy is Editor of the influential works The Handbook Of Alcohol Related Pathology, The Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse and The Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologies (all published by Academic Press-Elsevier).
Professor Preedy graduated in 1974 with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. He gained his University of London PhD in 1981. In 1992, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 1993 he gained his second doctoral degree (DSc). Professor Preedy was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 1995 and also as a Fellow to the Royal College of Pathologists in 2000. He was then elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (2004) and The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (2004). In 2009, Professor Preedy became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and in 2012 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 600 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and numerous books and volumes.
Affiliations and Expertise
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, UK
Reviews
"...comprehensively covers all aspects of the neurobiology of cocaine and its related pathology. It is an extensive, thorough, in-depth reference regarding all aspects of cocaine's pharmacological, cellular, and molecular effects influencing neurobiological function. Score: 98 - 5 Stars"--Doody's
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