Neurochemical and Neuropharmacological Aspects of Depression

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses neurochemical and neuropharmacological aspects of depression. The term “depression” generally refers to the symptoms sadness affect or one various psychiatric syndromes in which depressed mood is a prominent feature. clinical depression include different combinations, such as mood, greater severity duration than may be regarded normal situation. Distinguishing classifying separate based on long-standing problem psychiatry, so that number overlapping systems have been developed for these disorders. depressions antidepressant drug electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are most value those disorders designated “endogenous depression” many classification. These characteristically show autonomy depressive once illness established lack reactivity either day-to-day changes patient's environment social interactions. Endogenous involutional melancholia included under heading manic-depressive also explains biogenic amine hypothesis affective