Exploring the Brain with Drugs,

Abstract

Based on present data it is suggested that exploration of the brain with drugs allows also exploration of the mind, for which it is the substrate. Drugs may be used to increase understanding of cerebral function in health and disease and to assess functional disintegration as in brain damage, ageing, mental retardation and mental disturbance. Proposed clinical yardsticks based on this could be used for diagnosis, for evaluation of therapy, for screening populations for individuals in need of preventive or prophylactic care and in the evaluation of new drugs. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 11, 1972
Accession Number
AD0747042

Entities

People

  • Amedeo S. Marrazzi

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain Injuries
  • Congress
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Disintegration
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Mental Processes
  • Nervous System Diseases
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Psychiatry
  • Retardation
  • Substrates
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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