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A Practical Guide
Helps residents and clinicians in diagnosing and treating the spectrum of mood disorders. This guide explains how to accurately diagnose unipolar depression and bipolar disorder and offers specific, detailed, evidence-based recommendations on pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. It includes chapters that address clinical problems.Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this practical guide will aid residents and clinicians in diagnosing and treating the full spectrum of mood disorders. Using the conversational style and clinical vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry titles, Dr. Ghaemi explains how to accurately diagnose unipolar depression and bipolar disorder and offers specific, detailed, evidence-based recommendations on pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Chapters review the pharmacology of all antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics in current use and point out these drugs' advantages and drawbacks in specific clinical situations. Other chapters address clinical problems such as depression, mania, and ADHD in children and the conundrum of schizoaffective disorder. |
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| Author(s) : S. Nassir Ghaemi | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0781767636 | ISBN-13 : 9780781767637 |
| RRP : £25.26 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Series Title : Practical Guides in Psychiatry
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/11/2007
Publisher : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Page Length : 320mm
Page Size : 190mm