Contents

PART I: Drugs Affecting the Autonomic Nervous System………………………………………………… 1

1. Cholinergic Agonists……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
   Rupali Patil and Aman Upaganlawar
2. Cholinergic Antagonists………………………………………………………………………………………………………..31
   Vishal S. Gulecha, Manoj S. Mahajan, Aman Upaganlawar, Abdulla Sherikar, and Chandrashekhar Upasani
3. Adrenergic Agonists………………………………………………………………………………………………………………61
   Seetha Harilal and Rajesh K.
4. Adrenergic Antagonists…………………………………………………………………………………………………………97
   Seetha Harilal and Rajesh K.
   PART II: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System………………………………………………… 131
5. Pharmacological Management of Alzheimer’s Disease………………………………………………………….133
   Rakesh Kumar, Rajan Kumar, Abhinav Anand, Neha Sharma, and Navneet Khurana
6. Pharmacological Management of Parkinson’s Disease………………………………………………………….151
   Newman Osafo, Samuel Obeng, David D. Obiri, Oduro K. Yeboah, and Leslie B. Essel
7. Pharmacological Management of Huntington’s Disease………………………………………………………..175
   Sonia Sharma, Sushant Sharma, and Shallina Gupta
8. Pharmacological Management of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis………………………………………….193
   Shalini Mani, Chahat Kubba, Tanya Sharma, and Manisha Singh
9. Antianxiety Drugs……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….219
   Vaibhav Walia and Munish Garg
10. Antimanic Drugs…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………237
    Aman Upaganlawar, Abdulla Sherikar, and Chandrashekhar Upasani
11. Sedative and Hypnotic Drugs ……………………………………………………………………………………………..259
    Arup Kumar Misra and Pramod Kumar Sharma

12. Antidepressant Drugs………………………………………………………………………………………………………….283
    Vaibhav Walia and Munish Garg
13. Antipsychotic Drugs……………………………………………………………………………………………………………297
    Harleen Kaur, Ramneek Kaur, Varsha Rani, Kanishka Sharma, and Pawan Kumar Maurya
14. Antiepileptic Drugs……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..317
    Ajay Gupta and Surjit Singh
15. Local Anesthetics…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………351
    Elena González Burgos, Luis García-García, M. Pilar Gómez-Serranillos, and Francisca Gómez Oliver
16. General Anesthetics…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….389
    Aman Upaganlawar, Abdulla Sherikar, and Chandrashekhar Upasani
17. Alcohol Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy of Alcoholism………………………………………………..417
    Manoj Govindarajulu, Sindhu Ramesh, Ellery Jones, Vishnu Suppiramaniam, Timothy Moore,
    and Muralikrishnan Dhanasekaran
18. Cognition Enhancers…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..447
    Ramneek Kaur, Rashi Rajput, Sachin Kumar, Harleen Kaur, Rachana, and Manisha Singh
19. Opioids Analgesics and Antagonists……………………………………………………………………………………..465
    Rachana, Tanya Gupta, Saumya Yadav, and Manisha Singh
20. Drugs of Abuse and Addiction……………………………………………………………………………………………..485
    Shalini Mani, Chahat Kubba, and Aarushi Singh
21. Therapeutic Gases for Neurological Disorders……………………………………………………………………..513
    Rachana, Tanya Gupta, Saumya Yadav, and Manisha Singh
    PART III: Miscellaneous Drugs…………………………………………………………………………………… 537
22. Pharmacotherapy of Neurochemical Imbalances………………………………………………………………….539
    Rupali Patil, Aman Upaganlawar, and Suvarna Ingale
23. Evaluation Models for Drug Transport Across the Blood–Brain Barrier……………………………….573
    Chinnu Sabu and K. Pramod
24. Therapeutic Potentials of Nanomedicine for Brain Disorders……………………………………………….593
    Himani Chaurasia, Vishal K. Singh, Vivek K. Chaturvedi, Richa Mishra, and Vishal Srivastava
    Color insert of illustrations……………………………………………………………………………………………………..A – H
    Index………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….609

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