Drug delivery to the central nervous system

Delivery of drugs into the central nervous system (CNS) is of paramount importance for the treatment of neurological disorders, but is also a challenging task since only few molecules can cross the blood-brain barrier. Thus, many drugs that could be effective fail during development because they do not reach therapeutic concentrations within the CNS. Many methods for overcoming this obstacle have been proposed and tried. In Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System, the editor, in 15 chapters and just over 300 pages, has done an overview of these methods. All chapters are organized to be autonomous, structured with an abstract and an introduction.....