Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews

Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews:
The Next Generation of Progress

A series editorial by Salvatore J Enna, PhD

Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews replaces the Generation of Progress,which consisted of five volumes published intermittently between 1968 and 2002. While the Generation of Progressserved for decades as a major reference work, a single large volume is an increasingly difficult mechanism for promulgating new data given the pace of research, developments in information technology, and the time needed for authoring, editing, printing, and distributing such a massive work...read editorial in its entirety.

Volume One

Neuroplasticity: A New Window on Therapeutics in Neuropsychiatric Disease

A volume editorial by Peter Kalivas, PhD and Husseini Manji, MD. Both serve as series editors and are volume editors for this first issue.

Over the last 20 years an understanding has emerged that the brain is in a state of continual change and adaptation to the environment. Notably, the cellular processes mediating brain adaptation are now seen as potential vulnerabilities underlying neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuroplasticity is the term widely used to describe this changing brain function at all levels of organization, from genetic to cellular and to behavioral...read editorial in its entirety.

Table of Contents

Neuroplasticity Mediated by Altered Gene Expression

Synaptic Plasticity: Multiple Forms, Functions, and Mechanisms

Divergent Plasticity of Prefrontal Cortex Networks

Neural Mechanisms of Extinction Learning and Retrieval

Interaction between BDNF and Serotonin: Role in Mood Disorders

Fragile X: Translation in Action

Stress, Depression, and Neuroplasticity: A Convergence of Mechanisms

Cellular Plasticity Cascades in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Anxiety as a Developmental Disorder

Neuroplasticity of Neocortical Circuits in Schizophrenia

Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity