title: Neurotransmitters and diseases of the brain.
abstract: The success of drugs targeted to specific transmitter systems in treating various psychiatric and neurological disorders is currently based on both empirical and rational approaches. Hopes for new rationally based therapies, especially those which may slow the progress of neurodegenerative disorders, continue to spring from an ever-expanding literature on transmitters and CNS disease, which is reviewed in this article.
authors.affiliation: MRC Neurochemical Pathology Unit, Newcastle General Hospital.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000502:physiology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents