This updated guide to the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain and behaviour provides enhanced pedagogy throughout. The book now features a chapter on herbal medicines and their use in treating psychological disorders.
This book covers new insights in the field of schizophrenia with an aim to advance the understanding of scientists and clinicians in this area and to fuel drug discovery.
"John M ("Mickey") Nardo, in his retirement, practiced psychiatry in a volunteer clinic in the Appalachian hills of Georgia. "I worked in the clinics today," he wrote in 2012. "In the morning, I saw adults - a lot of them. I had three patients where the central issue was unrecog…
"The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology is an indispensable and comprehensive resource for clinicians and trainees who prescribe psychotropic medications. Updated to reflect the new DSM-5 classification, this revised Fifth Edition maintain…
This text examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.
This text examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.
Introduction / William M. Klykylo -- General principles of psychopharmacotherapy with children and adolescents / William M. Klykylo -- Introduction / William M. Klykylo -- Sympathomimetic amines, central nervous system stimulants, and executive function agents / Christina Weston…
"Psychiatry is now a dismal failure. From a strictly medical viewpoint - it doesn't work. Its insistence on a banal mechanistic approach is simplistic and grossly inappropriate. Its obstinate over-reliance on drugs results in epidemics, not cures"--Chapter 1