Stahl's Illustrated Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

by Stephen M. Stahl, Laurence Mignon, Nancy Muntner

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, Third 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 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:	9780521133159
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/24/2009
Series:	Stahl's Illustrated
Edition description:	Illustrate
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at 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, circuits, genetics; 2. ADHD across the ages; 3. Comorbidities of ADHD; 4. Drugs and mechanism of actions.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michael Easton, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: An excerpt from Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008), that uses Dr. Stahl's innovative educational style, this book reviews a variety of neurobiological theories for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Its unique combination of visual and didactic teaching help makes complicated psychopharmacology concepts easy to master.
Purpose: The intent is to present the fundamentals of neurobiology and treatment in a simplified and easy to read form.
Audience: Any students interested in the psychopharmacological treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are the intended audience. This book will be useful for medical students, residents, physicians, and general psychiatrists. It can even be useful for psychopharmacologists, helping them in their teaching endeavors.
Features: The book provides condensed overviews of the symptoms, genetics, and neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It then reviews pharmacological treatments, the mechanism of action, agents available in the U.S. and abroad, and medications presently in development.
Assessment: This is an excellent overview of the various agents used for patients with these disorders. For those who do not want to purchase the larger textbook, this is a worthwhile acquisition. It is not meant to be a reference.

Doody's Review Service

Reviewer: Michael Easton, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: An excerpt from Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008) , that uses Dr. Stahl's innovative educational style, this book reviews a variety of neurobiological theories for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Its unique combination of visual and didactic teaching help makes complicated psychopharmacology concepts easy to master.
Purpose: The intent is to present the fundamentals of neurobiology and treatment in a simplified and easy to read form.
Audience: Any students interested in the psychopharmacological treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are the intended audience. This book will be useful for medical students, residents, physicians, and general psychiatrists. It can even be useful for psychopharmacologists, helping them in their teaching endeavors.
Features: The book provides condensed overviews of the symptoms, genetics, and neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It then reviews pharmacological treatments, the mechanism of action, agents available in the U.S. and abroad, and medications presently in development.
Assessment: This is an excellent overview of the various agents used for patients with these disorders. For those who do not want to purchase the larger textbook, this is a worthwhile acquisition. It is not meant to be a reference.