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Herbal Medicine in Depression

Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Clara Grosso

    1. REQUIMTE/LAQV Lab Pharm Dep Chem Fac Pha, University of Porto, City, Portugal

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  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Depressive Disorders: Prevalence, Costs, and Theories

    • Clara Grosso, Patrícia Valentão, Paula B. Andrade
    Pages 1-41

  3. Traditional and Novel Possible Targets for Antidepressant Drugs

    • Eleni Palazidou
    Pages 43-73

  4. Cell-Based Systems of Depression: An Overview

    • Danuta Jantas
    Pages 75-117

  5. Animal Models of Depression

    • Eva González-Trujano, Fabiola Domínguez, Juan Manuel Gallardo, Christian Guerra-Araiza, Julia J. Segura-Uribe, Sandra Orozco-Suárez
    Pages 119-133

  6. Prevalence of Use of Herbal Medicines and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Europe

    • Lucian Hritcu, Oana Cioanca
    Pages 135-181

  7. Medicinal Plants from Countries of Former USSR Used for Treatment of Depression

    • Nazim Mamedov, Nilufar Mamadalieva
    Pages 183-258

  8. Chinese Herbal Medicine Used Against Depression in China

    • Dandan Feng, Xiangping Lin, Shu Yang, Zhaoyu Yang, Zian Xia, Zhiqing Li et al.
    Pages 259-379

  9. Antidepressant Medicinal Plants and Compounds Used in Traditional Medicines in North America

    • Fabiola Domínguez, Eva González-Trujano, Juan Manuel Gallardo, Sandra Orozco-Suárez
    Pages 381-431

  10. Antidepressant Plant Species from the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP)

    • Generosa Teixeira, Eurico S. Martins, Luís Catarino
    Pages 433-481

  11. Oceania: Antidepressant Medicinal Plants

    • Ian Edwin Cock, Matthew J. Cheesman
    Pages 483-527

  12. Novel Drug Delivery Systems for Herbal Antidepressants

    • Vandita Kakkar, Nancy Modgill, Manoj Kumar
    Pages 529-556

  13. Future Strategies for the Treatment of Depression

    • Clara Grosso
    Pages 557-571

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 573-585
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • REQUIMTE/LAQV Lab Pharm Dep Chem Fac Pha, University of Porto, City, Portugal

    Clara Grosso

About the editor

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.

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