The European Institute of Healthcare devoted its 5th Neuropsychiatry Symposium to neuropsychopharmacology. Topics were chosen by the organisers and editors, Professors Fleischhacker and Brooks, to bridge the gap between basic neuroscience and the clinical fields of neurology, but mostly psychiatry. The slim volume comprises seven chapters that cover a wide range of topics from histamine receptors to developments in substance dependence research and the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia. The chapters are uniformly up to date and written in …