Psychiatric neural networks and neuropharmacology: Selected advances and novel implications

摘要

Psychiatric disorders are often considered as simple imbalances between a limited number of cerebral neurotransmitters. In fact, it is more complicated than this ''simple approach'' and each psychiatric disorder constitutes network dysfunction within which several agents and factors are implicated. Thus, the therapeutical perspectives and implications are as vast and as numerous as the diversity of those network dysfunctions. Furthermore, the description of factors influencing diseases prognoses and treatment efficacy indicates new elements to consider both in therapies and drug researches.