ABSTRACT
The prescription of drug treatment is usually resorted to only when techniques of behavioural management have failed. The daunting scope and complexities of this field can be appreciated by consulting any major text concerning the pharmacological basis of therapeutics (for example Goodman et al., 1985). This particular publication is in its eighth edition and comprises 67 chapters in 18 major sections. Of these sections, numbers I, II and III are of particular help in relation to the subject of the present book. Section I consists of four chapters outlining general principles. Section II contains seven chapters focusing on drugs acting at synaptic and neuroeffector junctional sites. Section III comprises 11 chapters concerned with drug actions on the central nervous system. See also Vess, 1990.
