A Rational Framework for the Development, Evaluation, and Use of Psychoactive Drugs
Abstract
The author attempts to construct a model for patient assessment and psychiatric drug therapy akin to that of somatic therapy. It is suggested that drug effects on major target functions of behavior can form a basis for their rational selection and use and attention is drawn to their actions of probable therapeutic significance. Rejected as relatively unsatisfactory is the present tendency to select drugs on the basis of their presumed effects on diagnostic entities.
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