Herbal Medicine in Depression: Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319140209)

Depressive disorders: prevalence, costs and theories.- Traditional and novel possible targets for antidepressant drugs.- Cell-based systems of depression: An overview.- Animal models of depression.- Prevalence of use of herbal medicines and complementary and alternative medicine in Europe.- Medicinal plants of former USSR used for treatment of depression.- Chinese herbal medicine used against depression in China.- antidepressant medicinal plants and compounds used in traditional medicines in North America.- antidepressant plant species from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).- Oceania: antidepressant medicinal plants.- Novel drug delivery systems for herbal antidepressants.- Future strategies for depression treatment.