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Cognitive Enhancement

  • Emphasizes individual cognitive domains, cutting across disease and disorder, with a perspective on the pharmacology for each
  • Maximizes insights into evolving themes that will bring cognitive research into a new era
  • Gives a broad overview on unique cognitive domains and the potential to treat with drugs the impairments in individual domains rather than in individual neurologic diseases or psychiatric disorders

Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP, volume 228)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Basic Approaches and Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
    2. Methods for Delivering and Evaluating the Efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement

      • Philip D. Harvey, Richard S. E. Keefe
      Pages 5-25
    3. Animal Paradigms to Assess Cognition with Translation to Humans

      • Tanya L. Wallace, Theresa M. Ballard, Courtney Glavis-Bloom
      Pages 27-57
    4. Signaling Pathways Relevant to Cognition-Enhancing Drug Targets

      • Caroline Ménard, Pierrette Gaudreau, Rémi Quirion
      Pages 59-98
  3. Cognitive Domains for Pharmacological Intervention: Implications for Neuropsychiatric and Neurological Illnesses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-159
    2. Attention

      • Patrick M. Callahan, Alvin V. Terry Jr.
      Pages 161-189
    3. Executive Function

      • John Talpos, Mohammed Shoaib
      Pages 191-213
    4. Declarative Memory

      • Wim J. Riedel, Arjan Blokland
      Pages 215-236
    5. Verbal Memory

      • Tomiki Sumiyoshi
      Pages 237-247
    6. Emotional Memory

      • Karim Nader
      Pages 249-270
    7. Social Cognition

      • Alexandra Patin, René Hurlemann
      Pages 271-303
  4. Developmental Disorders, Alternative Approaches, and Emerging Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-307
    2. Neural Targets in the Study and Treatment of Social Cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder

      • Arshya Vahabzadeh, Samantha M. Landino, Beate C. Finger, William A. Carlezon Jr., Christopher J. McDougle
      Pages 309-334
    3. Pharmacological Disruption of Maladaptive Memory

      • Jane R. Taylor, Mary M. Torregrossa
      Pages 381-415
    4. Optogenetics and Deep Brain Stimulation Neurotechnologies

      • Krishnakanth Kondabolu, Marek Mateusz Kowalski, Erik Andrew Roberts, Xue Han
      Pages 441-450
    5. Closing Thoughts for Cognitive Enhancement

      • Kathleen M. Kantak, Joseph G. Wettstein
      Pages 451-459

About this book

This book highlights the behavioral and neurobiological issues relevant for drug development, reviews evidence for an innovative approach for drug discovery and presents perspectives on multiple special topics ranging from therapeutic drug use in children, emerging technologies and non-pharmacological approaches to cognitive enhancement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, USA

    Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development; Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Rare Diseases, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland

    Joseph G. Wettstein

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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