Herbal Medicine in Depression

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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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.

• Biochemistry
• CNS Diseases
• Neurosciences
• Pharmacognosy
• Phytochemistry

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

  Clara Grosso

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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