title: Brain Function and Psychotropic Drugs (Oxford Medical Publications)
author:  Heather Ashton 
description: 'recommended as general background reading for postgraduate students on the neurosciences and for others interested in psychiatry, psychology, neurophysiology and related fields.'<br />Aslib Book List, Vol. 58, No. 2, February 1993<br /><br />'the book is an excellent condensation of important brain functions and their manipulation with psychotropic drugs'<br />H. Coper, Arzneimittel-Forschung/Drug Research 43 (11) Nr, 7 (1993)<br /><br />'this is an exciting volume which can be read with profit by any undergraduate student of the life sciences or postgraduates studying for the MRCPsych. The author is also to be congratulated on the scope of her references ... this is a valuable addition to the texts that are currently<br />available in Psychopharmacology.'<br />Brian Leonard, University College, Galway, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 1993 October<br /><br />'This book remains brave in trying to assess the actions of drugs on identified brain systems ... Ashton writes well and undergraduates may benefit from reading this book.'<br />Philip Winn, Neuropsychologia
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Foreword by Daniel Amen, M.D.](Foreward.xhtml)
  
  
  [Introduction](Introduction.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part I: The Brain Before 25](Part_Page_1.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [1 BRAIN FACTS](Chapter_1.xhtml)
  
  
  [2 THE BRAIN BEFORE 25](Chapter_2.xhtml)
  
  
  [3 ANTICS AND THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX](Chapter_3.xhtml)
  
  
  [4 THE CINGULATE GYRUS AND COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY](Chapter_4.xhtml)
  
  
  [5 EMOTIONS AND BONDING: MEET THE LIMBIC BRAIN](Chapter_5.xhtml)
  
  
  [6 ANXIETY AND THE BASAL GANGLIA](Chapter_6.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part II: The Young Brain in the Real World](Part_Page_2.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [7 THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL](Chapter_7.xhtml)
  
  
  [8 OTHER WAYS WE HURT THE BRAIN](Chapter_8.xhtml)
  
  
  [9 WHEN THE BRAIN STRUGGLES](Chapter_9.xhtml)
  
  
  [10 GETTING TO KNOW OTHER PEOPLE’S BRAINS](Chapter_10.xhtml)
  
  
  [11 ADAPTING YOUR BRAIN TO THE BRAINS OF OTHERS](Chapter_