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

by Stephen M. Stahl, Laurence Mignon, Nancy Muntner (Illustrator)

Overview

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, 3rd 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139833394
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/26/2010
Series:	Stahl's Illustrated
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of 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.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michael Easton, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is another in a series of easy to read books reviewing a specific area of psychopharmacology using both colorful illustrations and text. This book uses a unique combination of visual and didactic approaches to help make complicated psychopharmacology concepts easy to master.
Purpose: The intent is to present the fundamentals of neurobiology and treatment in a simplified and readable format.
Audience: The book is intended for any student interested in the psychopharmacological use of antipsychotics in the treatment of mania, depression, and psychosis. It is useful for medical students, residents, physicians, and general psychiatrists. It can even be useful for psychopharmacologists, helping them in their teaching endeavors.
Features: It provides condensed overviews of depression, mania, and psychosis, including the symptoms, genetics, and neurobiology. It reviews pharmacological treatments, the mechanism of action of agents available in the U.S. and abroad, and looks at medications presently in development.
Assessment: This excerpts information from Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide: Antipsychotics and Mood Stabilizers, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Dr. Stahl's innovative educational style is evident, simplifying complicated topics to make them easy to understand for most readers. The book reviews a variety of neurobiological theories regarding depression, mania, and psychosis and is an excellent overview of the many various agents used in these disorders. If one does not want to purchase the larger books, this is a worthwhile addition to a library. It is not meant to be a reference.

Doody's Review Service

"This book uses a unique combination of visual and didactic approaches to help make complicated psychopharmacology concepts easy to master....It is useful for medical students, residents, physicians, and general psychiatrists. It can even be useful for psychopharmacologists, helping them in their teaching endeavors....Dr. Stahl's innovative educational style is evident, simplifying complicated topics to make them easy to understand for most readers. The book reviews a variety of neurobiological theories regarding depression, mania, and psychosis and is an excellent overview of the many various agents used in these disorders."
—Doody's Review Service

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