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Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications 5th Edition
Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications 5th Edition:
Long established as the preeminent source in its field, the eagerly anticipated fifth edition of Dr Stahl’s essential textbook of psychopharmacology is here! With its use of icons and figures that form Dr Stahl’s unique ‘visual language’, the book is the single most readable source of information on disease and drug mechanisms for all students and mental health professionals seeking to understand and utilize current therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications. Every aspect of the book has been updated, with the clarity of explanation that only Dr Stahl can bring. The new edition includes over 500 new or refreshed figures, an intuitive color scheme, fourteen new uses for older drugs and eighteen brand new drugs, coverage of Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis, behavioural symptoms of dementia, and mixed features in major depressive episodes, and expanded information on the medical uses of cannabis and hallucinogen assisted psychotherapy.
Additional ISBNs:
∗ Print ISBN: 110883857X, 978-1108838573, 9781108838573
∗ eText ISBN: 1108985858, 978-1108985857, 9781108985857
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Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications 5th Edition:
Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface to the Fifth Edition
CME Information
1 Chemical Neurotransmission
2 Transporters, Receptors, and Enzymes as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
3 Ion Channels as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
4 Psychosis, Schizophrenia, and the Neurotransmitter Networks Dopamine, Serotonin, and Glutamate
5 Targeting Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors for Psychosis, Mood, and Beyond: So-Called “Antipsych
6 Mood Disorders and the Neurotransmitter Networks Norepinephrine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)
7 Treatments for Mood Disorders: So-Called “Antidepressants” and “Mood Stabilizers”
8 Anxiety, Trauma, and Treatment
9 Chronic Pain and Its Treatment
10 Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness and Their Treatment: Neurotransmitter Networks for Histamine a
11 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Its Treatment
12 Dementia: Causes, Symptomatic Treatments, and the Neurotransmitter Network Acetylcholine
13 Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction
Suggested Reading and Selected References
Index
Stephen M. Stahl
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 300 articles and chapters, Dr Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher, and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology.
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