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Neuropsychopharmacology of the Trace Amines pp 3–12Cite as

The Trace Amines: Recent Overview and Future Pointers

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At the 1st International Conference on the Trace Amines held in Edmonton, Canada in 1983, [Proceedings of which have been published Boulton et al. (1984)], not only was the new work up to the end of 1982 described but in addition, the general properties of the trace amines and their identification and quantitative analysis was reviewed. This 2nd meeting held in Tübingen, West Germany covers work completed since then. Clearly everything could not be included and so the organizers have chosen to concentrate on the neuro-and psycho-pharmacology of the trace amines and some bioclinical findings. Not all the trace amines could be included, for example, histamine, the polyamines, aliphatic amines and the classical biogenic amines when present in ‘trace’ concentrations, were ommitted as was the burgeoning role of the trace amines in invertebrate systems; rather, as in 1983, it was the arylalkylamines on which we focussed.

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  1. Psychiatric Research Division Cancer and Medical Research Building, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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    L. Maitre

  3. Human Pharmacology Institute, CIBA-GEIGY GmbH, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    P. R. Bieck

  4. Ludwig-ßoltzmann Institut für klinische Neurobiologie, Krankenhaus Wien-Lainz, Wien, Austria

    P. Riederer

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Boulton, A.A. (1985). The Trace Amines: Recent Overview and Future Pointers. In: Boulton, A.A., Maitre, L., Bieck, P.R., Riederer, P. (eds) Neuropsychopharmacology of the Trace Amines. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5010-4_1

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