Full Description
Offering user-friendly, authoritative guidance on cutting-edge psychopharmacologic and somatic treatments for psychiatric and neurologic conditions, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychopharmacology and Neurotherapeutics, 2nd Edition, helps you put today's best approaches to work for your patients. Composed of topical chapters primarily from the third edition of Stern et al.'s Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, this fully revised resource focuses on current psychotropic treatments, electroconvulsive therapy, and neurotherapeutics, making it an ideal quick reference for psychiatrists, psychologists, internists, and nurse practitioners.
Brings you up-to-date information on key topics in the field, including the application of anticonvulsants, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and psychostimulants; drug-drug interactions; side effects; treatment adherence; and more
Includes detailed coverage of antidepressants, antipsychotics, and antianxiety medications, as well as advances in caring for patients with treatment-resistant depression and new legal considerations when prescribing psychotropics
Covers recent progress on the use of neurotherapeutic interventions, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagal nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation
Contains a new chapter on the pharmacotherapy of movement disorders (derived from Stern et al.'s MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, 8th Edition)
Features a user-friendly, highly templated format with abundant boxed summaries, bulleted points, case histories, algorithms, updated references, and suggested readings
Offers updated DSM-5-TR criteria alongside peerless, hands-on advice from members of the esteemed MGH Department of Psychiatry
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
1. Psychiatric Neuroscience: Incorporating Pathophysiology into Clinical Case Formulation
2. Treatment Adherence
3. Pharmacological Approaches to Depression and Treatment-Resistant Depression
4. Lithium and Its Role in Psychiatry
5. The Use of Antiepileptic Drugs in Psychiatry
6. The Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
7. Pharmacotherapy of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Across the Life Span
8. Natural Medications in Psychiatry
9. Antipsychotic Drugs
11. Pathophysiology, Psychiatric Co-morbidity, and Treatment of Pain
12. Psychiatric Illness During Pregnancy and the Post-partum Period
13. Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications
14. Drug-Drug Interactions in Psychopharmacology
15. Pharmacotherapy of Neurocognitive Disorders and Dementia
16. Pharmacotherapy of Substance Use Disorders
17. Pharmacotherapy of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
18. Device Neuromodulation and Brain Stimulation Therapies
19. Legal Considerations for Mental Health Providers
