Antipsychotics: Treating Psychosis, Mania and Depression. Stahl's Illustrated

Description

All of the titles in the Stahl's Illustrated series are designed to be fun. Concepts are illustrated by full-color images that will be familiar to all readers of Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, Third Edition and The Prescriber's Guide. The texts in this user-friendly series can be supplements to figures, images and tables. The visual learner will find that these books make psychopharmacology concepts easy to master, while the non-visual learner will enjoy a shortened text version of complex psychopharmacology concepts. Within each book, each chapter builds on previous chapters, synthesizing information from basic biology and diagnostics to building treatment plans and dealing with complications and comorbidities. Novices may want to approach the Stahl's Illustrated series by first looking through all the graphics and gaining a feel for the visual vocabulary. Readers more familiar with these topics should find that going back and forth between images and text provides an interaction with which to vividly conceptualize complex pharmacologies. And, to help guide the reader toward more in-depth learning about particular concepts, each book ends with a Suggested Reading section.

• High profile name in psychopharmacology
• New series of highly illustrated atlases that are easily carried; each book addresses a specific topic in psychopharmacology
• Supplemented with complementary tables and algorithms that provide clinical strategies as well as educational objectives and questions for the reader

Contents

1. Neurobiology of schizophrenia and mood disorders
2. Multifunctionality of antipsychotics
3. Side effects of antipsychotics: metabolic issues and sedation
4. Individual antipsychotic drugs
5. Schizophrenia pharmacy and switching strategies.

About the Authors

Stephen M. Stahl, University of California, San Diego
Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He has conducted numerous research projects awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Veterans Administration and the pharmaceutical industry. Author of more than 350 articles and chapters, Dr Stahl is the author of the bestsellers Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology and The Prescriber's Guide.
Laurence Mignon