Drugs, Environment, Brain, and Behavior

Drugs, Environment, Brain, and Behavior

The effects of psychoactive drugs are not just a function of their pharmacological actions, but are due to complex interactions among pharmacological, psychological, and environmental factors. We discuss here how drug-environment interactions determine the likelihood that addictive drugs produce a persistent form of neurobehavioral plasticity (sensitization) thought to be involved in the pathop...

Epigenetics, brain, behavior, and the environment.

Early experiences can modify regulatory factors affecting gene expression in such a way that, although the DNA sequence itself is not changed, the individual's physiology and behavior is substantially influenced. In some instances these epigenetic effects are exerted upon exposure, while in other instances they are transmitted across generations via incorporation into the germline. Examples of ...

Drugs and the Brain

for other reasons no doubt, the papers will be of unequal value to readers of 'Mental Health'. Paradoxically, those on the basic sciences may be of more use than those on the applied, despite the fact that they are by now three years out of date and that willingness to follow the leads provided into other literature will require a fair degree of sophistication. The other papers have little to s...

Drugs and the Brain

care facilities. When medical care programming is discussed, it is in the context of documentation of what exists and what slight variations on this theme are probable during the next few years. With this point of reference, those who make optimistic predictions of large hospital economies in operations, or vast increases in program efficiency through more modern facilities, are on shaky ground...

Drugs in the Environment