Drugs, brain, and behavior

Psychopharmacology in perspective

Drug classification and behavioral assessment

Basic principles of pharmacology

Excitability and chemical signaling in nerve cells

Synaptic transmission, drugs, and chemical neuroanatomy

Tolerance, sensitization, dependence, and addiction

Psychomotor stimulants and antiparkinsonian drugs

Antipsychotic drugs and neurochemical hypotheses of schizophrenia

Antidepressants and mood stabilizers

Sedative-hypnotics, anxiolytics, and anticonvulsants

Drug threatment of cognitive dysfunction

Naturally occurring and synthetic opiates and their antagonists

Dissociative anesthetics, psychedelics, and hallucinogens