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The third edition of this text presents 17 new chapters (for a total of 65), along with revision of all earlier material and updating of the list of references that accompanies each chapter. As before, the material is divided into four major sections: principles, classes of psychiatric treatments, clinical psychobiology and psychiatric syndromes, and treatment. New topics include brain imaging; statistics/clinical trial design; pharmacoeconomics; and chapters on new antidepressants (citalopram and S-citalopram, duloxetine and milnacipran, CRH receptor antagonists, NK-1 antagonists, and glucocorticoid antagonists), new antipsychotics (quetiapine, aripiprazole, ziprasidone), new treatments for bipolar disorder (oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, and topiramate), and insomnia. Nemeroff is with Emory U. School of Medicine; Schatzberg is at the Stanford U. School of Medicine. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Covering both basic science and clinical practice, this new edition of the definitive psychopharmacology text has been thoroughly updated and expanded to keep you current with the explosive growth in this burgeoning field. The book contains 62 chapters overall with 24 new chapters and 30 new authors. In four major sections, the Textbook covers: ? Principles of Psychopharmacology--provides the necessary background in neurobiology and pharmacology? Classes of Psychiatric Treatment: Animal and Human Pharmacology--presents information by classes of drugs, greatly expanding on the second edition by focusing whole chapters on single drugs in the antidepressant, antipsychotic and bipolar categories? Clinical Psychobiology and Psychiatric Syndromes--reviews the data on the biological underpinnings of specific disorders for a better understanding of current psychopharmacological approaches? Psychopharmacological Treatment--provides specific information about drug selection and their prescription Complete with a comprehensive and easy-to-use index, this new edition succeeds the second as the definitive textbook on psychopharmacology.
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