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Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2010

Jeffrey L. Cummings
Affiliation:
Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
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There has been continuous progress in neurotherapeutics and neuropsychopharmacology in the past year. Notable are the reports of successful preliminary disease-modifying trials in Niemann-Pick disease and Friedreich's ataxia. Progress also has been made in treatment of migraine, stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, and pain. Biomarkers are increasingly used to establish proof of pharmacology including measures of cerebrospinal fluid constituents and brain changes on magnetic resonance imaging. There is an increasing diversity of patient populations participating in clinical trials, including pediatric migraine and traumatic brain injury.

Key words: argatroban, atorvastatin, biomarkers, bipolar depression, clinical trials, deep brain stimulation, depression, disease modification, duloxatine, epilepsy, fingolimod, Friedreich's ataxia, glatiramer acetate, Huntington's disease, Idebenone, methylphenidate, Miglustat, migraine, modafinil, multiple sclerosis, neuropathic pain, nicardipine, Niemann-Pick Type C disease, Parkinson's disease, pharmacogenetics, pregabalin, retigabin, riluzole, ritogitine, rivastigmine, rizatripan, schizophrenia, spinal cord injury pain, testosterone, tramiprosate, transcranial magnetic stimulation, traumatic brain injury, zolmitriptan, zonisamide.

Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology 2008

Neurologic and psychiatric disorders are among the most common afflictions of human kind and continue to produce enormous disability globally. It is incumbent on the scientific community to search for means to relieve of neurologic and psychiatric disorders, to improve understanding of disease mechanisms, and to enhance neuropsychopharmacology. There continue to be advances in neurotherapeutics based on an improved understanding of disease mechanisms and improved access to tractable therapeutic targets. Progress in neurotherapeutics in neuropsychopharmacology 2008 captures some of the recent advances in the treatment of neurologic and psychiatric illnesses.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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