Amphetamines: Neurobiological Mechanisms, Pharmacology and Effects : Neurobiological Mechanisms, Pharmacology and Effects

Amphetamines are a family of substituted phenethylamine compounds that achieve their neurochemical and behavioral effects by liberating vesicular biogenic amine stores. Classified as psychostimulants, these drugs are commonly misused and abused. This book presents current research in the study of the neurobiological mechanisms, and pharmacology effects of amphetamines. Topics discussed include the neurotoxicity of methamphetamine; amphetamine effects on cardiac, endocrine and gastrointestinal systems; amphetamine dependence sensitization and tolerance hypotheses and amphetamine effects on allergic lung inflammation, amphetamine withdrawal and schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology and neurotoxicology of methamphetamine and 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine / Laurel M. Pritchard, Emily Hensleigh Methamphetamine and 3,4-methylene-dioxymethamphetamine : from classical to new molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity / J. Camarasa ... [et al.] Abuse-independent effects of amphetamines / Shiow-Chwen Tsai, Po-Ling Yu, Paulus S. Wang Enhance or reduce the rewarding effects : interpretation of drug dependence by amphetamine sensitization / Yia-Ping Liu, Che-Se Tung Amphetamine effects on allergic lung inflammation / Ana Paula Ligeiro de Oliveira ... [et al.] Withdrawal from amphetamines as an animal model of schizophrenia / D. Peleg-Raibstein Regulating the expression patterns of bizarre behavior : a therapeutic option for amphetamine-type drug-induced sterotypy? / Junichi Kitananka ... [et al.] The importance of contextual control over amphetamine dependence : evidence from an animal model of addiction / M.L. Andersen, R. Frussa-Filho, S. Tufik.