Psychopharmacology Neuroscientific Basis
and Practical Applications
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology
largely the story of Modern psychopharmacology is
chemical
neurotransmission
Anatomically, chemically, neurotransmission can be described as
and electrically
Neurons (nerve cells) Anatomical neurotransmission occurs through
synapse between axon of one neuron and axon of
axoaxonic synapse
another neuron
between axon terminals of one neuron and dendrites
axodendritic synapse
of others
axosomatic synapse axon terminal ends on cell body (soma)