Meyer, Ferrar, Biezonski, Yates - Psychopharmacology, 4e Student Resources

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Student resources to accompany Psychopharmacology 4e. The site includes Web Boxes for each chapter and samples of the following additional resources that are available in the enhanced e-book:

Animations
Self-Assessment Quizzes
Web Links
Recommended Readings
Flashcards

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Meyer, Ferrar, Biezonski, Yates - Psychopharmacology, 4e Student Resources

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Animation 3.1 Synaptic Transmission

Animation 3.2 Ionotropic and Metabotropic Receptors

Animation 3.3 Mechanisms of Hormone Action

Animation 3.4 Agonists and Antagonists

Animation 3.5 Chemical Signaling Mechanisms and Amplification

Animation 3.6 The Hypothalamus and Endocrine Function

Web Box 1.1 Pharmacology in Action: Herbal Medicine—Panacea or Hazard?

Web Box 1.2 Clinical Applications: Treating Autism with Intranasal Oxytocin

Web Box 2.1 Clincal Applications: Epilepsy

Web Box 3.1 The Orexin System and Narcolepsy

Web Box 3.2 The Gut–Brain Axis: Relevance for Neurotransmission, Pharmacology, and Behavior

Web Box 3.3 G-Protein Structure and Function

Web Box 3.4 Sex Hormones and Drug Abuse

Web Box 4.1 Pharmacology in Action: Using the Three-Chamber Social Interaction Test

Web Box 4.2 Pharmacology in Action: Using Drug Discrimination Testing

Web Box 4.3 The Cutting Edge: Using the Techniques of Neuropsychopharmacology

Web Box 5.1 Case Study of a Child Bearing a Mutation in the Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH) Gene

Web Box 6.1 Serotonin and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Is There a Link?

Web Box 7.1 Myasthenia Gravis – The Challenge of Diagnosis

Web Box 8.1 The Cutting Edge: Late-LTP, Learning, and Memory

Web Box 8.2 Clinical Applications: Examples of Excitotoxic Brain Damage in Medicine

Web Box 8.3 Pharmacology in Action: What Is the Endogenous Ligand for the Benzodiazepine Receptor?

Web Box 9.1 Of Special Interest: The Gateway Theory of Drug Use

Web Box 9.2 Of Special Interest: Does the Schedule of Controlled Substances Accurately Reflect Current Addiction Science?

Web Box 9.3 The Cutting Edge: The Genetics of Addiction

Web Box 9.4 The Cutting Edge: Does Midbrain Dopaminergic Cell Firing Encode Reward-Prediction Error?

Web Box 10.1 Pharmacology in Action: The Role of Expectation in Alcohol-Enhanced Human Sexual Response

Web Box 10.2 Drugs and Society: Alcohol and Aggression

Web Box 10.3 Of Special Interest: Gender Differences in Alcohol Effects

Web Box 10.4 Clinical Applications: Alcoholics Anonymous

Web Box 11.1 Clinical Applications: Saving a Life: Harm-Reduction Strategies for Opioid Overdoses

Web Box 11.2 Pharmacology in Action: Opiate Bioassay

Web Box 11.3 Of Special Interest: Opioid Modulation of Feeding

Web Box 11.4 The Cutting Edge: Role of NMDA Receptors in Tolerance and Dependence

Web Box 12.1 The Cutting Edge: Is Sweetened Water Solution More Reinforcing than Cocaine?

Web Box 12.2 Animal Models of Compulsive Cocaine Use

Web Box 12.3 Use and Misuse of Khat

Web Box 13.1 Pharmacology in Action: Why Do Tobacco Plants Make Nicotine?

Web Box 13.2 Case Study: Caffeine Intoxication (Caffeinism) in an Army Officer

Web Box 14.1 Of Special Interest: Cannabis Legalization: What are the Issues, and What are the Consequences

Web Box 14.2 The Cutting Edge: Does Early and Heavy Cannabis Use Increase the Risk of Later Developing a Psychotic Disorder?

Web Box 14.3 Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: Potential Risks to the Offspring

Web Box 15.1 Case Studies: How Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy Helped Four Different Cancer Patients

Web Box 15.2 Of Special Interest: Can PCP or Ketamine Cause Damage to the Developing Brain?

Web Box 16.1 Clinical Applications: SSADH Deficiency: An Inherited Metabolic Defect Characterized by Excessive Production of GHB

Web Box 16.2 Of Special Interest: "Date Rape" Drugs

Web Box 17.1 Pharmacology in Action: Novel Approaches to Treat Anxiety

Web Box 17.2 Pharmacology in Action: Early Experience and Stress

Web Box 17.3 Clinical Applications: Neurobiological Model of OCD

Web Box 17.4 Clinical Applications: Treating Insomnia

Web Box 18.1 Drugs and Society: Mood Disorders and Creativity

Web Box 18.2 Pharmacology in Action: Stress–Diathesis Model of Depression

Web Box 18.3 Clinical Applications: Agomelatine

Web Box 18.4 Clinical Applications: Sleep Deprivation Therapy (Wake Therapy)

Web Box 18.5 Clinical Applications: Treating Depression with Brain Stimulation

Web Box 19.1 Clinical Applications: The Functional Neuroanatomy of Hallucinations

Web Box 19.2 Clinical Applications: The Genain Quadruplets

Web Box 19.3 Pharmacology in Action: Animal Model—Prepulse Inhibition of Startle

Web Box 19.4 Pharmacology in Action: The Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Model of Schizophrenia

Chapter 3 Web Links

Chapter 3 Recommended Readings

Chapter 3 Flashcards

Self-Assessment 3.1

Self-Assessment 3.2

Self-Assessment 3.3

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