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Bibliometric analysis of biomedical publications on SSRI during 1980-2000Francisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Depress Anxiety 18:95-103. 2003....
[The mad and the demented in the literary works of Cervantes: on Cervantes' sources of medical information about neuropsychiatry]F Lopez-Munoz
Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 28871 Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 46:489-501. 2008....
A bibliometric study of international scientific productivity in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder covering the period 1980-2005Francisco López-Muñoz
Dept of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, C Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena 8, 28027 Madrid, Spain
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 17:381-91. 2008..We have carried out a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications related to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its pharmacological treatment over the period 1980-2005...
Psychotropic drugs in the Cervantine textsFrancisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
J R Soc Med 101:226-34. 2008
"Than all the herbs described by Dioscorides...": the traces of Andrés Laguna in the works of CervantesFrancisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Pharm Hist 49:87-108. 2007
[The development of neurotoxic agents as chemical weapons during the National Socialist period in Germany]F Lopez-Munoz
Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcalá Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 47:99-106. 2008..Furthermore, successive National Socialist governments set up a collaborative network made up of the academia, the chemical industry and military chiefs that also favoured this line of research...
The role of psychopharmacology in the medical abuses of the Third Reich: from euthanasia programmes to human experimentationFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Campus Universitario, Ctra Madrid Barcelona Km 33, 600, 28871 Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Brain Res Bull 77:388-403. 2008....
The pharmaceutical industry and the German National Socialist Regime: I.G. Farben and pharmacological researchF Lopez-Munoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
J Clin Pharm Ther 34:67-77. 2009..G. Farben brought to justice for, among other offences, the use of slave labour in the concentration camps and forced experimentation with drugs on prisoners...
The neurobiological interpretation of the mental functions in the work of Santiago Ramón y CajalFrancisco López-Muñoz
University of Alcala, Madrid
Hist Psychiatry 19:5-24. 2008..After being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906, Cajal's interests in psychological aspects began to decline...
The consolidation of neuroleptic therapy: Janssen, the discovery of haloperidol and its introduction into clinical practiceFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Ctra Madrid Barcelona, Km 33600, Alcala de Henares, 29971 Madrid, Spain
Brain Res Bull 79:130-41. 2009..Haloperidol has been included in the World Health Organisation's list of essential medicines...
Historical evolution of the neurotransmission conceptFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
J Neural Transm 116:515-33. 2009..Finally, we describe the process of the discovery of the different neurotransmitters and neuroreceptors, and analyse the new interpretations postulated in relation to the neurotransmission concept at the dawn of the twenty-first century...
Monoaminergic neurotransmission: the history of the discovery of antidepressants from 1950s until todayFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Curr Pharm Des 15:1563-86. 2009....
[The virtue of that precious balsam...: approach to Don Quixote from the psychopharmacological perspective]F Lopez-Munoz
Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid
Actas Esp Psiquiatr 35:149-220. 2007....
Bipolar disorder as an emerging pathology in the scientific literature: a bibliometric approachFrancisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
J Affect Disord 92:161-70. 2006..To carry out a bibliometric study on the scientific publications in relation to bipolar disorder...
[A century of barbiturates in neurology]F Lopez-Munoz
Unidad de Neuropsicofarmacología, Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Rev Neurol 39:767-75. 2004..Until the early 20th century, pharmacological treatments for neurological disorders were scarce and inefficient; only bromides stood out as sedating and antiepileptic agents...
History of the discovery and clinical introduction of chlorpromazineFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Ann Clin Psychiatry 17:113-35. 2005..The historical process of discovery and clinical introduction of chlorpromazine, one of the greatest advances of 20th century medicine and history of psychiatry, is analyzed...
"The herbs that have the property of healing...,": the phytotherapy in Don QuixoteFrancisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, C Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena 8, 28027 Madrid, Spain
J Ethnopharmacol 106:429-41. 2006..Also, we have examined the possible scientific influences, which might have inspired Cervantes in this field, mainly the work of Andrés Laguna (Dioscorides' Materia Medica)...
Reboxetine addition in patients with mirtazapine-resistant depression: a case seriesFrancisco López-Muñoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Clin Neuropharmacol 29:192-6. 2006....
Neuron theory, the cornerstone of neuroscience, on the centenary of the Nobel Prize award to Santiago Ramón y CajalFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, C Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena 8, 28027 Madrid, Spain
Brain Res Bull 70:391-405. 2006..Today, no neuroscientific discipline could be understood without recourse to the concept of neuronal individuality and nervous transmission at a synaptic level, as basic units of the nervous system...
Psychiatry and political-institutional abuse from the historical perspective: the ethical lessons of the Nuremberg Trial on their 60th anniversaryFrancisco López-Muñoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Pharmacology Department, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 31:791-806. 2007..Various strategies can be used to combat such abuses, though it is uncertain how effective they are in preventing them...
Reboxetine combination in treatment-resistant depression to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitorsF Lopez-Munoz
Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Pharmacopsychiatry 40:14-9. 2007..Treatment-resistant depression is a relatively common clinical occurrence: between 60-70% of depressive patients fail to achieve total remission to the initial treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI)...
[Historical approach to reserpine discovery and its introduction in psychiatry]F Lopez-Munoz
Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid
Actas Esp Psiquiatr 32:387-95. 2004..Finally, the conclusion reached was that, although the clinical relevance of reserpine was not as evident and long lasting as chlorpromazine, its initial contribution to the treatment of schizophrenic patients was of maximum importance...
Phytotherapy and psychiatry: bibliometric study of the scientific literature from the last 20 yearsP Garcia-Garcia
Department of Pharmacology, University of Alcala, C Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena 8, 28027 Madrid, Spain
Phytomedicine 15:566-76. 2008..935) and China (IPa=0.721). Productivity on medicinal plants in the psychiatry area increased during the period 1986-2006. Nevertheless, documents about therapeutic herbs in this medical field are still relatively few in number...
[Combination therapy with reboxetine for major depression patients who are partial or nonresponders to serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors]G Rubio
Servicio de Psiquiatría Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Actas Esp Psiquiatr 31:315-24. 2003..Recent studies have confirmed the usefulness of the therapeutical combination of two antidepressants from different pharmacological families in patients with single drug therapy resistant depression...
A bibliometric study of the use of the classification and diagnostic systems in psychiatry over the last 25 yearsF Lopez-Munoz
Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid
Psychopathology 41:214-25. 2008..Our purpose was to examine the use of classification and diagnostic systems in the field of psychiatry (CDSP) from a bibliometric perspective, over the period 1980-2005...
Augmentation treatment with amisulpride in schizophrenic patients partially responsive to olanzapineJ D Molina
Acute In Patient Unit, Dr R Lafora Psychiatric Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Pharmacopsychiatry 44:142-7. 2011..The purpose of the present work was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of amisulpride augmentation in patients responding at least partially to olanzapine...
An historical view of the pineal gland and mental disordersF Lopez-Munoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
J Clin Neurosci 18:1028-37. 2011....
[The pineal gland as physical tool of the soul faculties: a persistent historical connection]F Lopez-Munoz
Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Espana
Neurologia 27:161-8. 2012..One of more known hypotheses on this subject was proposed by Descartes, for whom the soul would host in the pineal gland, a brain body with a special location that would adequately address the functionalism of the human body...
Effectiveness and safety of eprosartan on pulse pressure for the treatment of hypertensive patientsN R Robles
Service of Nephrology, Hospital Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Medical Department Juste S A Q F, Madrid, Spain
Int J Clin Pract 59:478-84. 2005..Eprosartan was a well-tolerated and an effective drug in reducing PP, SBP and DBP below the recommended levels in patients with mild-to-moderate essential hypertension, allowing a high therapeutic compliance...
[Therapeutic approach to epilepsy from the nutritional view: current status of dietary treatment]M Vicente Hernández
Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Neurologia 22:517-25. 2007..However, controlled, randomized clinical trials with larger population samples are needed to confirm these results in order to achieve an optimum and individualized dietary treatment in refractory epilepsy...
[Differences in management of depression in Spain from psychiatric and primary care physician point of view]B Martín Agueda
Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcala, Jesús Aprendiz 10C, 28007 Madrid
Actas Esp Psiquiatr 35:89-98. 2007..Given that depression is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder in our society, the current situation in pharmacotherapy of depression in Spain has been studied from the point of view of psychiatrists and general practitioners (GP)...
Cartesian theories on the passions, the pineal gland and the pathogenesis of affective disorders: an early forerunnerF Lopez-Munoz
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Psychol Med 41:449-51. 2011..The recent development of a new pharmacological agent acting through melatonergic receptors (agomelatine) has confirmed the close link between the pineal gland and affective disorders...
