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BJPsych Advances Biological Psychiatry special issue - Partial agonists of dopamine receptors

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Show Notes

Many treatments in psychiatry have proven efficacy and known side effects. However, clear, understandable and scientific explanations of their actions are thin on the ground. Exploration of drug actions at the fundamental level of the receptor can provide valuable insights for the treating physician.

The BJPsych Advances Biological Psychiatry special issue aims to provide theoretical underpinnings that might assist clinicians in making decisions particularly about doses of antipsychotics - including partial agonists - either alone or in combinations.

In this podcast, Dr Oliver Gale-Grant and author Professor John Cookson discuss his recent articles in the BJPsych Advances Biological Psychiatry special issue.

Read the articles at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/bjpsych-advances-biological-psychiatry-special-issue

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