Geriatric Psychopharmacology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0824798511 ISBN 13: 9780824798512

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1997

Riassunto

This authoritative, clinically relevant resource offers state-of-the-art discussions on the current status of geriatric psychopharmacology-furnishing an empirically based approach to the treatment of psychiatric disorders in elderly patients and focusing on the management of specific illnesses.
Examines the pharmacological treatment of depression in conjunction with other conditions, including heart disease, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and dementia!
Written by more than 20 internationally recognized experts representing distinguished institutions in the United States and Europe, Geriatric Psychopharmacology

reviews the pharmacokinetics of psychotropic drugs and neurochemistry during the aging process

analyzes therapeutic approaches to psychotic depression, major depression, and bereavement-related depression

describes anticonvulsant and lithium therapy for bipolar disorder and lithium toxicity in older patients

details the treatment of late-life psychosis and psychosis in Parkinson's disease

explains therapeutic approaches for anxiety, panic, and obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as the role of sedative-hypnotics

addresses the neuroleptic and nonneuroleptic treatment of dementia

and more!

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Contenuti:

General Principles

Neurochemistry of Aging, Kaj Blennow and C. G. Gottfries
Pharmacokinetics of Psychotropic Drugs, David J. Greenblatt, Lisa L. von Moltke, and Richard I. Shader
Drug Interactions, Bruce G. Pollock

Depression

Treatment of Major Depression in the Elderly, J. Craig Nelson
Treatment of Psychotic Depression, Barnett S. Meyers
Treatment of Major Depressions During Bereavement, Selby Jacobs and Sidney Zisook
Maintenance Therapies for Late-Life Recurrent Major Depression: Research and Review Circa 1996, Charles F. Reynolds, III, Ellen Frank, James M. Perel, Sati Mazumdar, and David J. Kupfer

Treatment of Depression with Associated Conditions

Depression and Cardiac Disease, Steven P. Roose
Treatment of Poststroke Psychiatric Disorders, Robert G. Robinson, Susan K. Schultz, and Sergio Paradiso
Depression and Cancer, Herbert Ward and Dwight L. Evans
Depression and Parkinson's Disease, Norman Sussman
The Assessment and Treatment of Depressed-Demented Patients, George S. Alexopoulos
Use of Stimulants in Depressed Patients with Medical Illness, George B. Murray and Edwin Cassem

Bipolar Disorder

Use of Lithium in Bipolar Disorder, Robert C. Young
Lithium Toxicity in the Elderly, James W. Jefferson
Anticonvulsants in Bipolar Elderly, Charles L. Bowden

Late-Life Psychosis

Treatment of Psychosis in Late Life, John H. Eastham, Jonathan P. Lacro, James B. Lohr, and Dilip V. Jeste
Treatment of Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease, Jonathan M. Meyer and George M. Simpson

Anxiety Disorders

Sedative-Hypnotics in the Elderly Population, Philip G. Janicak and Frank J. Ayd, Jr.
The Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Elderly, Malcolm Lader and Raymond Ancill

Dementia

Use of Cognitive Enhancers in Dementing Disorders, Steven C. Samuels and Kenneth L. Davis
Neuroleptics for Behavioral Complications of Dementia, D. P. Devanand
Nonneuroleptic Treatment of Complications of Dementia: Applying Clinical Research to Practice, Pierre N. Tariot and Lon Schneider

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• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0824798511
• ISBN 13: 9780824798512
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 488
• Redattore: Nelson J. Craig