Overview

Until several decades ago, few studies were conducted on the differences among individual responses to pharmacologic agents. Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, enzyme induction was discovered, and it became apparent that the intake of certain foods or drugs could adaptively modify drug metabolism and, therefore, drug response. Now researchers are beginning to realize how both adaptive and genetic forces may cause pharmacological distinctions among human populations once separated by distance or geographical boundaries. Psychopharmacology and Psychobiology of Ethnicity provides a unique overview of how ethnically defined populations respond to psychoactive drugs. Its renowned contributors review and summarize our current knowledge of ethnic differences and similarities among patients in response to psychotropic drugs.

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Author:   Keh-Ming Lin (Harbour-UCLA Medical Center) ,  Russell E. Poland (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) ,  Gayle Nakasaki ,  Gayle Nakasaki
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Volume:   No.39
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780880484718

ISBN 10:   0880484713
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 June 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview. Introduction: psychopharmacology, psychobiology, and ethnicity. Overview: the interface between psychobiology and ethnicity. 'Nonbiological' issues affecting psychopharmacotherapy: cultural considerations. Ethnicity and Psychopharmacology. Ethnicity and the pharmacology of tricyclic antidepressants. Ethnicity and differential responses to benzodiazepines. Interethnic variation in response to lithium therapy among African-American and Asian-American populations. Influence of ethnicity on reduced haloperidol concentrations in blood. Haloperidol and reduced haloperidol plasma concentrations in different ethnic populations and interindividual variabilities in haloperidol metabolism. Tardive dyskinesia: cross-cultural perspectives. Genetic polymorphisms of alcohol-metabolizing enzymes related to alcohol sensitivity and alcoholic diseases. Ethnicity and Psychobiology. Ethnicity and biological markers. Biopsychosocial perspective on depression in African-Americans. Clinical and epidemiologic studies of dementias: cross-ethnic perspectives. Afterword.

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This is a book that will be most helpful to psychiatrists involved in psychopharmacology with minority populations. * READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health * This is must reading for clinicians, teachers, and researchers with particular interest and skill in psychopharmacology, cultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and biological psychiatry. * The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *

This is must reading for clinicians, teachers, and researchers with particular interest and skill in psychopharmacology, cultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and biological psychiatry. - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

This is a book that will be most helpful to psychiatrists involved in psychopharmacology with minority populations. READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health This is must reading for clinicians, teachers, and researchers with particular interest and skill in psychopharmacology, cultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and biological psychiatry. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

<p> This is must reading for clinicians, teachers, and researchers with particular interest and skill in psychopharmacology, cultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and biological psychiatry. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Author Information

Keh-Ming Lin, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Research and Education Institute, Inc., in Torrance, California. Russell E. Poland, Ph.D., is a Research Pharmacologist at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Research and Education Institute, Inc. in Torrance, California. Gayle Nakasaki, M.S.W., is Assistant Director of the Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity at Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, Inc., in Torrance, California.

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