ENGLISH

Understanding the Neurotransmitters: Key to the Workings of the Brain

By Prof. Dr. Peter Riederer (auth.) , Prof. Dr. Walther Birkmayer

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Wien
Year
1989
ISBN
978-3-211-82100-8, 978-3-7091-3451-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7091-3451-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2505331 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
137\154
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Internal Med

Description

This book demonstrates for the first time the connection between age, disease in old age, psychiatric disorders, pain, psychosomatic phenomena on the one hand and the function of neurotransmitters on the other and attempts to explain the significance of these substances for our behaviour. The authors therefore offer a biological approach to psychotherapy, drug dependence, neurosis and psychopathy, which have hitherto been seen from a purely psychiatric angle. This modern version of the hypothesis that "the balance of neurotransmitters is a condition for normal behaviour" will surely give an impulse to further far-reaching research.

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