The Good News About Depression: Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatry - Brossura

Gold, Mark S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553372149 ISBN 13: 9780553372144

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995

Riassunto

An informative guide to new treatments for depression examines key new diagnostic tools and techniqes, examines recent developments in the field of biopsychiatry, details the links between depression and physical ailments, and furnishes valuable self-help advice. Original.

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L'autore:

Mark S. Gold, M.D., F.C.P., F.A.P.A. is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He has received numerous awards and patents for his research, including the invention of new treatments and the use of laboratory tests in psychiatry. Dr. Gold has played a leading role in international, national, and local drug abuse prevention programs.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

o pioneering biopsychiatrist Mark S. Gold, M.D. wrote a visionary guide to the effective new medical therapies emerging for the treatment of depression. Now, in this newly revised edition of his classic book, Dr. Gold does it again. The new Good News reveals how, in just a decade, sophisticated new research and drug therapies have revolutionized the care of all types of depression.

This essential resource includes:

-New treatments for depression and manic depression for 1995 and on the horizon for approval

-New diagnostic guidelines for different types of depression,including crucial tests many physicians omit

-The most common illnesses that mimic depression

-New tools to treat depression, such as light therapy and hormone therapy

-An all-new chapter on Prozac and other state-of-the-art medications

-New information on depression in women, children, and seniors

-Vital new approaches

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553372149
• ISBN 13: 9780553372144
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384