The Neuropsychiatric Complications of Stimulant Abuse

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume concentrates on the neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse.

Brings together cutting-edge research on the neuropsychiatric complications of stimulant abuse Emerging topics: stimulants, amphetamines, legal highs, designer drugs, neuropsychiatric complications.

1. The Story of "Speed" From "Cloud Nine" to Brain Gain

Andrew Lees, Katrin Sikk and Pille Taba

2. Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: The Early History of Their Medical and Non-Medical Uses

Nicolas Rasmussen

3. Miracle or Menace? The Arrival of Cocaine 1860-1900

Mike Jay

4. Psychostimulants: Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

Andrew C. McCreary, Christian P. Müller and Małgorzata Filip

5. Epigenetic Mechanisms of Psychostimulant-Induced Addiction

Anti Kalda and Alexander Zharkovsky

6. Experimental Models on Effects of Psychostimulants

Sulev Kõks

7. Neurologic Complications of Psychomotor Stimulant Abuse

Juan Sanchez-Ramos

8. Neurobehavioral Sequelae of Psychostimulant Abuse

Atbin Djamshidian

9. Neuropsychiatric Adverse Effects of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine

Jaanus Harro

10. "Addicted to Euphoria": The History, Clinical Presentation and Management of Party Drug Misuse

Jenny Bearn and Matthew O’Brien

11. "Natural Amphetamine" Khat: A Cultural Tradition or a Drug of Abuse?

Nilesh B. Patel

12. Methcathinone "Kitchen Chemistry" and Permanent Neurological Damage

Katrin Sikk and Pille Taba

13. "Legal Highs" – An Emerging Epidemic of Novel Psychoactive Substances

Jolanta B. Zawilska

14. Psychostimulants and Artistic, Musical and Literary Creativity

Iain Smith

15. Opium as a Literary Stimulant: The Case of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Neil Vickers