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Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Samuel H. Barondes


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Every day millions of people take psychiatric drugs. In Better Than Prozac Samuel Barondes considers the benefits and limitations of Prozac, Ritalin, Valium, Risperdal, and other widely used medications and the ways that superior ones are being created. In tracing the early history of these drugs Barondes describes the accidental observations that led to their discovery and their great impact on our view of mental illness. He goes on to show how their unexpected therapeutic effects were attributed to their influence on neurotransmitters thatcarry signals in the brain and how this guided their improvement. But Barondes reminds us that, like the originals, current psychiatric drugs don't always work, and often have negative side effects. Furthermore, none were crafted as remedies for known brain abnormalities...

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Every morning, after breakfast, Clara takes a psychiatric drug.

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  • Title Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs
  • Author Samuel H. Barondes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-02-11
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780195179798 / 019517979X
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.58 x 0.59 in (21.77 x 14.17 x 1.50 cm)
  • Reading level 1370
  • Library of Congress subjects Antidepressants
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002033396
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

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Samuel H. Barondes, M.D., is Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His books include Molecules and Mental Illness and Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression, both selected as "Great Brain Books" by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.
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