Essential Psychopharmacology

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@fssential Psychopharmacology explains the neurobiological concepts underlying the drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. For the student learning psychopharmacology for the first time, this book provides an easily readable introduction to the subject. For the physician or scientist with prior background in the field, the book is organized to provide a quick review of the key dimensions of psychopharmacology and the drug treatment of mental illness.
The clearly written, text is supplemented by a wealth of high-quality color graphics that are both instructive and entertaining. These illustrations and their captions may be used independently of the main text for a rapid introduction to the field, or for review. Covering both the neurobiology of .drug action, and the range of psychiatric disorders and their treatments, this book will indeed be an essential text for students, scientists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals, " a modern masterpiece This textbook is... Tovább

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@fssential Psychopharmacology explains the neurobiological concepts underlying the drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. For the student learning psychopharmacology for the first time, this book provides an easily readable introduction to the subject. For the physician or scientist with prior background in the field, the book is organized to provide a quick review of the key dimensions of psychopharmacology and the drug treatment of mental illness.
The clearly written, text is supplemented by a wealth of high-quality color graphics that are both instructive and entertaining. These illustrations and their captions may be used independently of the main text for a rapid introduction to the field, or for review. Covering both the neurobiology of .drug action, and the range of psychiatric disorders and their treatments, this book will indeed be an essential text for students, scientists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals, " a modern masterpiece This textbook is unusually lucid, while retaining an authoritative representation of sound scientific principles and findings."
Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School " an extraordinarily complete compendium of the relevant basic and clinical information necessary to have a full understanding of how psychotropic drugs work and how to use them The book is beautifully and intelligently illustrated and many very technical concepts are reduced to very comprehensible illustrations It will be particularly useful, perhaps even essential, for psychiatric practitioners and primary care physicians who prescribe psychotropic agents on a regular basis."
Lewis Judd, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego Stephen M. Stahl is Director of the Clinical Research Center and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He has trained in three specialties, internal medicine, neurology and psychiatry, and supervises a staff of clinicians who provide patient care and conduct research. His current research program includes depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, social phobia, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Vissza