Handbook of psychopharmacotherapy
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Handbook of psychopharmacotherapy
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A clinical synopsis of the larger "Principles and Practice of Psychopharmacology", this text serves as a reference for clinicians prescribing psychotropic drugs. Emphasizing treatment strategies and meta-analysis, key information is presented in algorithms and tables so it can be quickly retrieved.
Table of Contents
- General principles - principles of psychopharmacotherapy, role of neuroscience, diagnostic assessment, role of the laboratory
- assessment of drug efficacy and relevant clinical issues - evaluation of drug study designs, statistical summarization of drug studies, patient issues, drug management, role of the food and drug administration, cost of treatment
- pharmacokinetics - general principles, role of pharmacokinetics, alteration in pharmacokinetics, the four primary pharmacokinetic phases, therapeutic drug monitoring
- indications for antipsychotics - schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, nonpsychotic disorders
- treatment with antipsychotics -mechanism of action, effects on cognition and behaviour, management of acute psychosis, maintenance/prophylaxis, long-acting antipsychotics, pharmacokinetics/plasma levels, alternative treatment strategies, role of psychosocial therapies, adverse effects
- indications for antidepressant therapy - mechanism of action, treatment planning, management of an acute depressive episode, maintenance/prophylaxis, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic drug monitoring, alternative treatment strategies, role of psychosocial therapies, herbal therapies, adverse effects
- treatment with electroconvulsive therapy and other somatic therapies - electroconvulsive therapy, experimental somatic therapies
- indications for mood stabilizers - bipolar disorder
- treatment with mood stabilizers - mechanism of action, management of an acute manic episode, maintenance/prophylaxis, alternative treatment strategies, pharmacokinetics of mood stabilizers, adverse effects of mood stabilizers, adverse effects of other drugs
- indications for antianxiety and sedative-hypnotic agents - generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorders, psychological factors affecting medical condition, sleep disorders
- treatment with antianxiety and sedative-hypnotic agents - mechanism of action, treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, treatment of phobic disorders, treatment of sleep disorders, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects of anxiolytics, adverse effects of sedative-hypnotic
- assessment and treatment of other disorders - panic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trichotillomania, post-traumatic stress disorder
- assessment and treatment of special populations - the pregnant patient, the child and the adolescent patient, the personality-disordered patient, the elderly patient, the dying patient, the alcoholic patient, the human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient, the eating-disordered patient, conclusion.
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