vii Drugs and sex are two topics about which most people have
strong opinions and weak understanding. Knowledge of each can be
gained in many ways, all with associated rewards and risks. Like
all textbooks, this one was written in the belief that reading can
foster learning. The book is intended to introduce principles of
behavioral pharmacology to readers with little or no knowledge of
the discipline but with an interest in how drugs affect human
behavior. Gleaning anything of value from the text requires two
things from the reader. The first is a willingness to accept an
analysis of drug effects that shares little with folklore or common
sense no tions of drug action. The second is a willingness to
accept the fact that the behavioral effects of drugs are complex
and depend upon a sizable number of pharmacological and behavioral
variables. Unless one is aware of these factors and how they
determine a drug's actions, the behavioral effects of drugs can be
neither pre dicted nor meaningfully explained. If it does nothing
else, this volume will make it obvious that the behavioral effects
of drugs are lawful and can be predicted and understood on the
basis of well-established relations between empirical phenomena. De
scribing these relations and exploring how they allow behavioral ix
x PREFACE pharmacologists to make sense of drug effects that are
otherwise incomprehensible was a major goal in preparing the text."
General
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
NATO Science Series B: |
| Release date: |
March 2012 |
| First published: |
1986 |
| Authors: |
Alan Poling
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
246 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4684-5067-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Clinical psychology >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4684-5067-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781468450675 |
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