The precise relationship between neurobehavioural effects and neurotransmitter effects of psychiatric drugs are not always understood. Here the authors develop a database documenting the neurotransmitter response in rats to 258 different neuropsychiatric drugs, and conclude that this neurotransmitter response does not, in general, reflect the current categorisation of those drugs.
- Hamid R. Noori
- Lewis H. Mervin
- Rainer Spanagel