Therapeutics in geriatric neuropsychiatry
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Therapeutics in geriatric neuropsychiatry
Wiley, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This handbook seeks to bridge the various levels of clinical geriatric psychiatry, giving readers an up-to-date account of the new drugs available and of how common neuromedical and psychiatric problems are approached in the elderly. It has three overlapping sections: the neurodegenerative disorders; the psychiatric syndromes; and behavioural presentations.
Table of Contents
- Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
- vascular dementia
- psychosis in the elderly
- depression in the elderly
- the agitated and aggressive elderly person in residential care
- clinical considerations in the diagnosis and management of geriatric delirium
- chronic pain in the elderly - a psychiatric syndrome?
- electroconvulsive therapy in dementia
- endogenous cortisol - relationship to psychiatric disorders
- dementia - nurse's role
- social work
- psychotherapy with the geriatric psychiatry patient
- cognition.
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