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Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior: Introduction to Psychopharmacology

I wrote this textbook to provide a conceptual understanding for effects of psychoactive substances, including those used recreationally, abused, and therapeutically. The introductory nature of the matieral allows learning about these compounds without a neuroscience or medical background and is aimed for undergraduate audiences. The textbook if commonly used in psychology undergraduate programs for courses on Psychopharmacology, Drug Use and Abuse, and Behavioral Pharmacology, and also is used in various health science curriculums. This is a rapidly advanced area requiring updated material. The book has gone through three editions in order to stay current, as well as to integrate new features and approaches to enhance student learning. The third is the most current, published in 2021 by SAGE Publishing.

Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior: An Introduction to Psychopharmacology, 3rd edition.

The third edition, like earlier editions, provides a broad coverage of the fundamental concepts and principles of psychopharmacology and overviews of majors types of psychoactive drugs. My writing approach emphases connecting basic research findings to the effects we find in humans. In doing so, students not only learn how drugs act on the nervous system to produce pharmacological effects, but they also learn about the techniques used to study psychoactive drugs. Updated editions have come out every three years to keep up with this rapidly advancing field. For example, since the earlier edition, nicotine vaping has become common and ketamine is actually FDA approved for treating depression. The third and second editions are published by SAGE Publishing and the first edition is published by Cengage Learning.

Drugs and Neuroscience of Behavior: An Introduction to Psychopharmacology, 2nd Edition

Published by SAGE Publishing

An Introduction to Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior, 1st Edition

Published by Cengage Learning