Title | Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Symposium on Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease held at the Texas Research Institute, Houston, Texas, November 18-20, 1970 / edited by Beng T. Ho, William M. McIsaac |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1971 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3057-8 |
Descript | XIII, 411 p. online resource |
Enzymes: Implications in Mental Disease -- Multiple Forms of Monoamine Oxidase in Developing Tissues: The Implications for Mental Disorder -- Regulation of Catecholamine Biosynthesis: Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Dihydropteridine Reductase -- Behavioral, Metabolic, and Enzymatic Studies of a Brain Indoleethylamine N-Methylating System -- Transmethylation Processes in Schizophrenia -- Psychoactive Agents: Biological Actions -- Effects of Drugs on Catecholamine Synthesis -- Pharmacological Implications of the Effects of Amphetamine and Its Analogs on the Turnover Rate of Tissue Catecholamines -- Studies on the Mechanism of Action of 6-Methoxytetrahydro-Beta-Carboline in Elevating Brain Serotonin -- Comparison of the Effects of Electrical Stimulation and Iontophoretic Dopamine on Neurons of the Nigro-Neostriatal Pathway -- Biological Aspects of Affective Disorders -- Biogenic Amines and Affective Disorders -- Catecholamines and Affective Illness: Studies with L-DOPA and Alpha-Methyl-Para-Tyrosine -- Relationships between Stress and Brain 5-Hydroxy-tryptamine and their Possible Significance in Affective Disorders -- Interactions between Adrenocortical Steroid Hormones, Electrolytes, and the Catecholamines -- Thyroid-Imipramine Interaction: Clinical Results and Basic Mechanism -- Effects of Tricyclic Antidepressants on Norepinephrine Metabolism: Basic and Clinical Studies -- Brain Amines and Affective Disorders -- Overall Review -- Panel Discussion -- Genetic and Metabolic Factors in Mental Disorders -- Heterogeneous Distributions of Schizophrenia -- Frequency of Genetic Polymorphism: Implications for Mental Disease -- Purine Metabolism and Abnormal Behavior in Children -- Modern Concepts of Chemotherapy -- Chemotherapy of Schizophrenia -- Chemotherapy of Manic-Depressive Disorder -- Chemotherapy of Depression