| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Modern psychopharmacology and psychiatric treatment -- Antipsychotic agents -- Mood-stabilizing agents -- Antidepressant-antianxiety agents -- Status and prospects for psychopharmacology |
| Summary |
This book addresses the basic aspects of modern psychopharmacology and the clinical applications of drugs that are useful for the treatment of many major psychiatric disorders, including psychoses, major mood disorders, and many anxiety disorders. Includes descriptions of the main classes of psychotropic drugs, selected information concerning their known action mechanisms and metabolic disposition, and their clinical applications for acute illnesses and for prevention of recurrences or long-term morbidity, which are all too common among psychiatric disorders. In addition, limitations and adverse effects of each type of agent are covered. The first edition of the book appeared in 1977, and in the face of the growing complexity and specialization of the field, this monograph attempts to provide a relatively brief, consistent, and hopefully readable text aimed at communicating basic principles as well as facts, and at contributing to safe and effective clinical application of chemotherapy in psychiatry. Now that the field has been in existence for more than six decades, it also seemed timely to consider the current state of psychopharmacology, its evolution and promise, but also its theoretical and practical limitations, as the rate of innovation and of fundamentally new drug-products is declining, and its negative as well as many positive effects on clinical care of the mentally ill have become more apparent |
| Analysis |
Medicine |
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Neurosciences |
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Internal medicine |
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Neurology |
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Psychiatry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter, and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Psychotropic drugs.
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Mental illness -- Chemotherapy
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Psychopharmacology.
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Psychotropic Drugs
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Mental Disorders -- drug therapy
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Psychopharmacology
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- Psychopharmacology.
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Médecine.
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Mental illness -- Chemotherapy
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Psychopharmacology
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Psychotropic drugs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461437109 |
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1461437105 |
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1461437091 |
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9781461437093 |
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9781461479260 |
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1461479266 |
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1283697084 |
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9781283697088 |
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