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Plants and the human brain /
"This book sets out to describe not only how, in terms of pharmacology or psychopharmacology, but more importantly why plant- and fungus-derived chemicals have their effects on the human brain. The answer to this last question resides, in part, with the terrestrial world's two dominant lif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. From shamans to Starbucks
- 2. Secondary metabolites and the life of plants
- 3. More alike than we are unalike: Why do plant chemicals affect the human brain?
- 4. Alkaloids and the lives of plants and humans
- 5. The rewarding or addictive drugs
- 6. The hallucinogens
- 7. The deliriants: The nightshade (Solanaceae) family
- 8. Phenolics and the lives of plants and animals
- 9. Phenolics and the human brain
- 10. Terpenes and the lives of plants and animals
- 11. The Lamiaceae sub-tribe Salviinae: The Salvia, Rosmarinus and Melissa genera
- 12. Cannabis and the cannabinoids
- 13. Some miscellaneous terpenes
- 14. In conclusion: comparing and contrasting the alkaloids, phenolics and terpenes.