Clinical Trials in Psychopharmacology: A Better Brain, (2nd edn). Edited by Hertzman Marc and Adler Lawrence. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK, 2010. Price is ?.99. pp. 404. ISBN: 978-0-470-74076-7.

摘要

Scores of books have been written in the past two decades on the design of clinical trials and the problems and pitfalls that beset those undertaking such trials. Because of the ever-increasing importance of psychotropic drugs, both thera-peutically as well as for the rich source of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, attention has recently been focussed on the special requirements that must be considered in undertaking clinical trials of psychotropic drugs. This volume addresses many of these problems.The editors have selected a panel of some 32 authors who review the main themes of the monograph. There are three major themes. The first of these, consisting of five chapters, concerns the health care environment and medications and covers the changes in the FDA, the application of genomics to novel drug development, the importance of patenting and licensing in gene based drugs and women's issues in clinical trials.