Title | The Impact of Biology on Modern Psychiatry [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Symposium Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the Jerusalem Mental Health Center Ezrath Nashim held in Jerusalem, Israel, December 9-10,1975 / edited by Elliot S. Gershon, Robert H. Belmaker, Seymour S. Kety, Milton Rosenbaum |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0778-5 |
Descript | XII, 276 p. online resource |
Section I: Neurochemical Studies in Human Psychopathology -- The Significance of the Cerebral Dopamine Metabolism in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Psychotic Disorders -- A Comparison of the Effect of Lithium and Haloperidol on Human Peripheral ?-Adrenergic Adenylate Cyclase -- Central Biochemical Correlates to Antipsychotic Drug Action in Man -- Intra/Extra Red Blood Cell Lithium and Electrolyte Distributions as Correlates of Neurotoxic Reactions During Lithium Therapy -- Pharmacologicl Agents as Tools in Psychiatric Research -- The Measurement of Biogenic Amine Turnover Using Oxygen-18 -- Antibody Levels to Viruses in Psychiatric Illness -- A Tissue-Binding Factor in the Serum of Schizophrenic Patients -- Section II: Catecholamines and Behavior -- Factors Influencing The Deamination and Functional Activity of Biogenic Monoamines in the Central Nervous System -- Hypothermic Effects of Antipsychotic Phenothiazines -- Biochemical and Pharmacological Studies on an Animal Model of Hyperactivity States -- Some Old and New Theories in Biochemical Psychiatry -- Combined Use of Neuroleptic Drugs -- An Animal Model for the Measurement and Manipulation of Problem Solving Ability -- Section III: Genetic Studies in Psychiatry -- Genetic Aspects of Schizophrenia: Observations on the Biological and Adoptive Relatives of Adoptees who Became Schizophrenic -- Genetic and Biologic Studies of Affective Illness -- Genetic Studies in Schizoaffective Illness -- The Search for Genetic Polymorphisms of Human Biogenic-Amine Related Enzymes -- Twin Studies and Diagnostic Issues in Schizophrenia -- Participants