Psychotropica Neuroscience

Name: Psychotropica Neuroscience
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ISBN: 9786598812645

Molecular neurobiology of consciousness modulation

Felipe Heemann

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Brain Codex
27 February 2026

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Psychopharmacology; Neurosciences

Series: Consilience

Psychotropica Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook in molecular neuropsychopharmacology that refuses the false choice between rigour and accessibility. Across six units and more than eight hundred pages, it traces the full arc from receptor binding and signal transduction through neural circuit architecture to the phenomenology of conscious experience - and, ultimately, to the logic of therapeutic molecular decision-making.

The book has an anti-reductionist pedagogical framework in which every drug, every disorder, and every clinical scenario is examined at four integrated levels: molecular mechanism, circuit-level effect, subjective experience, and therapeutic strategy. Rather than presenting isolated facts about neurotransmitters and their targets, Psychotropicā reveals how pharmacological intervention reshapes the dynamic geometry of consciousness itself.

The journey begins with the molecular and cellular foundations of neural function - receptor theory, ion channels, signal transduction cascades, and pharmacokinetics - establishing the precise language through which drugs and brains converse. It then ascends through the major neurotransmitter systems - serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, GABA, glutamate, acetylcholine - treated not as isolated chemical messengers but as architects of behaviour, mood, and cognition. A dedicated unit on the neural architecture of experience examines arousal, interoception, emotion, memory, executive function, and the embodied self, grounding pharmacological action in the circuits that generate lived experience.

The book's theoretical core maps the molecular grammar of drug action across the major therapeutic classes - antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood stabilisers, stimulants - with publication-grade receptor binding data and pharmacokinetic parameters integrated into every discussion. A unit on multi-target pharmacology confronts the complexities of polypharmacy, drug interactions, and precision approachesthat should define contemporary clinical practice. The final unit examines psychedelics, dissociatives, deliriants, and ethnopharmacological agents as case studies in how altering neurochemistry fundamentally re-authors the ontology of the person.

Throughout, specialised pedagogical elements - Core Constructs, Conceptual Edges, Applied Insights, Structure Spotlights, and Field Notes - provide layered engagement with molecular detail, philosophical reflection, clinical translation, and historical context without disrupting the narrative flow.

Written for advanced medical students, neuroscience graduates, psychiatry residents, and clinical pharmacologists, Psychotropicā is intentionally demanding and unapologetically comprehensive. It respects the intelligence of its reader: it does not simplify until it becomes false, nor does it obscure behind unnecessary jargon. From receptor to experience, from molecule to meaning - this is the textbook that teaches you to think pharmacologically.

By: Felipe Heemann
Imprint: Brain Codex
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 60mm
Weight: 2.853kg
ISBN: 9786598812645
ISBN 10: 659881264X
Series: Consilience
Pages: 828
Publication Date: 27 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Heemann holds degrees in Biological Sciences, Literature, Mathematics, and Physics, with further specializations in Neurobiology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Pathophysiology, Toxicology, Pharmacology, and Linguistics. His academic training - rooted in the University of São Paulo (USP) - positions him at the crossroads of Neuroscience, Epistemology, and the Philosophy of Science: a terrain where empirical rigor meets conceptual architecture, and where his work insists on making both speak to each other with uncommon clarity.His transdisciplinarity is not the diluted kind. Physics, Mathematics, Evolutionary Biology, and the Philosophy of Mind operate in his work as equal and mutually corrective instruments - not as borrowed vocabularies, but as native ones. He moves between disciplines because the problems he pursues refuse to stay inside them.The argument running through all his work is geometric before it is philosophical: Clinical Medicine inherited a Laplacian-Cartesian framework and applies it to a system - the living body - that is fundamentally fractal, nonlinear, and irreducible to that framework. This is not a methodological objection. It is an ontological one.He does not write to popularize. He writes to argue. The difference matters.His essays guide the reader through the history of ideas with scientific rigor and the precision of a committed educator. In his pages, science ceases to be mere explanation - it becomes narrative, critical interrogation, and, occasionally, revelation.Heemann is the founder of Brain Codex, an independent scientific publishing imprint dedicated to works at the frontier of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science, and Complexity Theory. He works out of São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.