title: [Psychostimulants: a potential therapeutic alternative in mood and obsessive compulsive disorders (first part)].
abstract: Among illicit substances in all the world, psychostimulants fill the second place. Their bad use has greatly increased at the end of the eighties in parallel to the increases of varied party and to the research of putting up a good physical or intellectual performance. But their employment is not recent as it appears by their use at large scale during the Second world War and after it in Japanese society. A MEDLINE search from 1963 to 2002 was done to identify the literature published on psychostimulants and their sociocultural use, their basic chemistry, their pharmacology and more specifically their psychiatric uses and indications in thymic and obsessive compulsive disorders. The references of articles found were evaluated for other relevant articles.
authors.affiliation: C.H.U. Tivoli, La Louvière.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Samain
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs