Volume 38 · Number 4
APRIL 2008
Mechanisms of Action of Psychiatry
This issue of Psychiatric Annals is dedicated to how a variety of psychiatrically relevant neural processes work. The articles cover a range of phenomena at multiple levels of order, including signal transduction in psychiatry; mechanisms of action of cocaine addiction; corticotropin-releasing factor in depression; the human sexual response cycle; the serotonin transporter; and computational modeling in the development of psychiatric medications.
From Brain to Mind: What a Glorious Journey
Jan Fawcett, MD
Mechanisms of Action in Psychiatry
George I. Viamontes, MD, PhD;
Bernard D. Beitman, MD
Signal Transduction in Psychiatry
George I. Viamontes, MD, PhD
Cocaine Addiction: Mechanisms of Action
Ryan T. LaLumiere, PhD;
Peter W. Kalivas, PhD
The Role of Corticotropin-releasing Factor in the Pathophysiology of Depression: Implications for Antidepressant Mechanisms of Action
Elizabeth I. Martin;
Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD
The Human Sexual Response Cycle: Psychotropic Side Effects and Treatment Strategies
Andrew G. Resnik, MD;
Muaid H. Ithman, MD
The Serotonin Transporter in Psychiatric Disorders
Mohd A. Shamsi, MD, MSc;
Sultana Jahan, MD
Computational Modeling: A Tool for New Psychiatric Medication Development
Guoshi Li;
Jyotsna Nair, MD;
Gregory J. Quirk, PhD;
Satish S. Nair, PhD
