Table of Contents

Subpopulations of Benzodiazepine Receptors: Implications for the Pharmacology of Inverse Agonists; Evidence for a Modified Model of Agonists and Inverse Agonist Actions at the GABA Receptor; Inhibition of GABAergic Transmission: Interactions with Other Transmitter Systems; Adaptive Changes to Chronic Treatment with Ligands for Benzodiazepine Receptors: Sensitization to Inverse Agonists and Tolerance to Agonists; Inverse Agonists and Alcohol; Inverse Agonists and Schedule-Controlled Behaviour; Benzodiazepine Receptor Inverse Agonists and Ingestive Behaviour: The Palatability Hypothesis; Fear and Anxiety Induced by Benzodiazepine Receptor Inverse Agonists; Behavioural Facilitation and Cognition Enhancement; Human Experimental Psychopharmacology of Benzodiazepine Receptor Inverse Agonists and Antagonists; Inverse Agonists as Therapeutic Drugs.