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Specific (limbic) systems that control emotions in the brain are affected by stimulating these drug receptors.
Prescribers need a more thorough medical education to manage the rapidly growing number of psychoactive medications with increasingly complex interactions and effects on liver enzymes and drug receptors, Dr.
Using specific examples, it discusses the development of receptor theory, describes the role of second messengers in mediating the effects of drugs, and shows how the concept of drug receptors was gradually overtaken by an appreciation of targets in the wider sense.
 
 
 
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