Clinical geriatric psychopharmacology

Author(s)

• Salzman, Carl

Bibliographic Information

Clinical geriatric psychopharmacology

[edited by] Carl Salzman

Williams & Wilkins, c1992

2nd ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This 2nd edition presents an integrated approach to drug treatment of elderly patients. The authors go beyond the basics of geriatric pharmacology to provide the most current information available on the relative advantages and disadvantages of each drug. This book appears at a time when the growth in the elderly population coincides with an ever larger pharmacopoeia, and information on both the drugs and the populations' particular medical and psychiatric problems is critically important.

Table of Contents

• Treatment issues for the older patient
• prescribing patterns of psychotic drugs
• special problems and side effects
• the impact of ageing on psychotropic drug effects
• the ageing brain
• pharmacokinetics
• treatment of disruptive behaviour and psychosis
• treatment of agitation and psychosis
• treatment of mania
• anxiety and related disorders
• diagnostic considerations
• treatment of anxiety
• sleep
• impact of age on sleep
• treatment of sleep disorders
• memory
• diagnostic considerations
• neurobiology and pharmacological treatment
• prescribing information
• drug names, dosage schedules
• drug interactions.

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Details

• NCID: BB16583918
• ISBN:
  • 0683074954
• LCCN: 91030505
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 361 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC451.4.A5
  • NLM : WT 150 C64031 1998
  • DC21 : 618.97/68918
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Geriatric psychopharmacology
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- in old age
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- drug therapy
  • MESH : Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use