Herbal Medicine in Depression

This book is written for researchers, undergraduate students
and postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners
who develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry and
ethnopharmacology or can be useful for their practice. Topics discussed include
the description of depression, its biochemical causes, the targets of
antidepressant drugs, animal and cell models commonly used in the research of
this pathology, medicinal plants and bioactive compounds with antidepressant
activity used in traditional medicine, advances in nanotechnology for drug
delivery to the brain and finally the future challenges for researchers
studying this pathology.