Psychotropic drug use: Between healing and enhancing the mind

Neuroethics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 63-73

  Pieters, Toine ^a,b   Snelders, Stephen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cosmetic; Cycle; Enhancement; History; Psychopharmacology; Psychotropics

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; BARBITAL; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; MEPROBAMATE; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; RESERPINE; SECOBARBITAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERPNAL;

ALERTNESS; BACKACHE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG USE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH PAIN; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 70350757704     PISSN: 18745490     EISSN: 18745504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12152-009-9033-0     Document Type: Review

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