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The Neuropsychiatric Complications of Stimulant Abuse

The book ‘The neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse’ gives a broad overview on effects of psychostimulants that may lead to disastrous neurological and psychiatric consequences causing a permanent harm when misused. However, their potential to enhance cognition could perhaps still lead to an expanded beneficial role.

Pille Taba (Volume editor), Andrew John Lees (Volume editor), Katrin Sikk (Volume editor)

9780128029787, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 27 May 2015

402 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.77 kg

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume concentrates on the neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse.

    1. The Story of "Speed" From "Cloud Nine" to Brain Gain
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      Andrew Lees, Katrin Sikk and Pille Taba

    2. Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: The Early History of Their Medical and Non-Medical Uses

      3. Nicolas Rasmussen

    3. Miracle or Menace? The Arrival of Cocaine 1860-1900

      4. Mike Jay

    4. Psychostimulants: Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

      5. Andrew C. McCreary, Christian P. Müller and Malgorzata Filip

    5. Epigenetic Mechanisms of Psychostimulant-Induced Addiction

      6. Anti Kalda and Alexander Zharkovsky

    6. Experimental Models on Effects of Psychostimulants

      7. Sulev Kõks

    7. Neurologic Complications of Psychomotor Stimulant Abuse

      8. Juan Sanchez-Ramos

    8. Neurobehavioral Sequelae of Psychostimulant Abuse

      9. Atbin Djamshidian

    9. Neuropsychiatric Adverse Effects of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine

      10. Jaanus Harro

    10. "Addicted to Euphoria": The History, Clinical Presentation and Management of Party Drug Misuse

      11. Jenny Bearn and Matthew O’Brien

    11. "Natural Amphetamine" Khat: A Cultural Tradition or a Drug of Abuse?

      12. Nilesh B. Patel

    12. Methcathinone "Kitchen Chemistry" and Permanent Neurological Damage

      13. Katrin Sikk and Pille Taba

    13. "Legal Highs" – An Emerging Epidemic of Novel Psychoactive Substances

      14. Jolanta B. Zawilska

    14. Psychostimulants and Artistic, Musical and Literary Creativity

      15. Iain Smith

    15. Opium as a Literary Stimulant: The Case of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Neil Vickers

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Pharmacology [MMG], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]
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