Download Author: Davis, John M.

3 eBooks available.

Advances in Psychopharmacology

Reviews the status of various psychoactive drugs to give an overall summary of their efficacy. For purposes of comparison and a general presentation, we have compiled summary data to show the efficacy of new treatment in comparison with the older placebo treatment. These are presented in the context of similar data for the classical antibiotics—streptomycin for tuberculosis and penicillin for pneumococcal pneumonia.

(103 pp.)

Antipsychotic Drugs

The advent of chlorpromazine as a novel and effective antipsychotic agent stimulated the search for better antipsychotic drugs with fewer side effects and, as a result, a number of new phenothiazine derivatives were synthesized.  (94 pp.)

Antianxiety Drugs

Historical overview highlighting how antianxiety drugs are reasonably effective in the treatment of outpatient anxiety. (41 pp.)