Blue dreams : the science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds

Summary: Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316370622
ISBN: 0316370622
Physical Description: print
xvii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-386) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Thorazine: Awake! -- Lithium : a salted stone -- Early antidepressants : the three-ringed molecule and the psychic energizer -- SSRIs : the birth of Prozac -- Placebos : the dancing disease -- Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) : God's flesh -- MDMA (Ecstasy) : the marriage medicine -- PKMzeta/ZIP (memory drugs) : the spotless mind -- Deep brain stimulation : who holds the clicker? -- Epilogue: Where we're headed.