Psychotropic Drug Handbook provides students and practitioners with clinically relevant psychotropic drug information. Its focus goes beyond drug information to cover pharmacotherapy applications.

Psychotropic Drug Handbook, Eighth Edition provides detailed, well-referenced, evidence-based information on a wide range of psychotropic drugs, including mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and antianxiety agents.

This edition has new chapters on pediatric and geriatric psychopharmacotherapy; new content on antipsychotics, hypnotics, medications used in treating alcoholism and substance dependence, and electroconvulsive therapy; and new algorithms, appendices, and tables.

Contents

1. Antipsychotics
2. Antidepressants
3. Mood Stabilizers
4. Antianxiety Agents (Anxiolytics)
5. Hypnotics
6. Psychotropic Drug Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Dependence
7. Drug Interactions
8. Management of Acute Drug Withdrawal
9. Electroconvulsive Therapy
10. Pharmacotherapy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
11. Geriatrics

Appendices

• Psychotropic Drug Product List
• Pregnancy Risk and Lactation Categories
• Psychotropic Drug Pharmacokinetic Parameters
• Psychotropic Drug Interactions

Index

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