Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dopaminergic hypothesis of schizophrenia : a historical perspective / Aurelija Jucaite and Svante Nyberg -- Dopamine D2/D3 partial agonists as antipsychotics / Philip G. Strange -- D1/D5 dopamine agonists as pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia / Kevin N. Boyd and Richard B. Mailman -- PDE inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for schizophrenia / Judith A. Siuciak and William J. Pitts -- Glutamatergic synaptic dysregulation in schizophrenia / Joseph T. Coyle, Alo Basu, and Michael Benneyworth -- Metabotropic glutamate 2/3 receptor agonists and positive allosteric modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 as novel agents for the treatment of schizophrenia / Gerard J. Marek [and others] -- AMPA receptor positive modulators / John A. Morrow, John K.F. Maclean, and Craig Jamieson -- Progress in the exploration and development of GlyT1 inhibitors for schizophrenia / Jeffrey S. Albert and Michael W. Wood -- Combined dopamine D2 and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1a receptor strategies for the treatment of schizophrenia, a pharmacological and chemical perspective / Andrew C. Mccreary, Roelof W. Feenstra, and Caitlin A. Jones -- 5-HT2C and 5-HT6 receptor targeted emerging approaches in schizophrenia / Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson [and others] -- The cholinergic hypothesis : an introduction to the hypothesis and a short history / Joseph I. Friedman, Isabella Kanellopoulou, and Vladan Novakovic -- À7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the treatment of schizophrenia / Mihály Hajós, and Bruce N. Rogers -- Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors as novel targets for the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia / Christian C. Felder [and others] -- Will modulation of neuropeptide receptors produce the next generation of antipsychotic drugs? : a focus on the neurokinin and neurotensin systems / Lee A. Dawson, Paul W. Smith, and Jeannette M. Watson -- GABA and schizophrenia / John H. Kehne and George D. Maynard.

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