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Herbal Medicine in Depression, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateur : Grosso Clara

Couverture de l’ouvrage Herbal Medicine in Depression

This book is written for researchers, undergraduate students and postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners who develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology or can be useful for their practice. Topics discussed include the description of depression, its biochemical causes, the targets of antidepressant drugs, animal and cell models commonly used in the research of this pathology, medicinal plants and bioactive compounds with antidepressant activity used in traditional medicine, advances in nanotechnology for drug delivery to the brain and finally the future challenges for researchers studying this pathology.

Depressive disorders: prevalence, costs and theories.- Traditional and novel possible targets for antidepressant drugs.- Cell-based systems of depression: An overview.- Animal models of depression.- Prevalence of use of herbal medicines and complementary and alternative medicine in Europe.- Medicinal plants of former USSR used for treatment of depression.- Chinese herbal medicine used against depression in China.- antidepressant medicinal plants and compounds used in traditional medicines in North America.- antidepressant plant species from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).- Oceania: antidepressant medicinal plants.- Novel drug delivery systems for herbal antidepressants.- Future strategies for depression treatment.

 

 

She is reviewer for more than 20 international journals focusing a broad range of scientific fields, such as natural products, analytical chemistry, neurosciences and biomedicine and she authored 25 publications in journals indexed to Journal Citation Reports from ISI Web of Knowledge. She also authored 2 book chapters, one of them on behalf of the CYTED action 112RT0460 “CORNUCOPIA” thematic network, 5 papers in conference proceedings, 4 oral communications and 15 posters in international meetings. Her total impact factor is 63.536 and her h-index is 11 (scopus database) or 9 (ISI Web of Knowledge). Since 2007, her papers received 254 citations from 191 peer-reviewed papers.

Combines different topics interesting for researchers from different backgrounds like ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, neurosciences

The book compiles traditional knowledge transferred orally from generation to generation that can be lost if not well documented. This is the reason why it is important to gather information about traditional medicines from all continents

Can be used not only by researchers but also by undergraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners

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232,09 €

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Date de parution :

Ouvrage de 585 p.

15.5x23.5 cm

Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).

232,09 €

Ajouter au panier