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The Scope of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
Author(s) -
Anthony Ryle
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1963.tb24955.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , epidemiology , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , computer science , programming language
The chapters number 13, and the topics dealt with are rascinattng indeed. Pharmacologically active substances in the central nervous system, psychotropic drugs, catecholamines and 5-hydroxytryptamine start off the book, and then discussions of anti-diabetic drugs, diuretics, the newer steroids, cholesterol and hypotensive drugs fill another hundred pages, the whole being rounded off with some modern considerations of chemotherapy and a discussion of sedatives, analgesics and antitussive drugs. Each chapter has, as previously, a full bibliography and is adequately and clearly illustrated with diagrams and tables.