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The Practitioner’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs by Stephen C. Schoonover M.D. (auth.), Ellen L. Bassuk M.D., Stephen C. Schoonover M.D., Alan J. Gelenberg M.D. (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Books, like people, are born, and, if they survive the trauma of birth, mature in response to a changing environment. This volume is no exception. It imme diately proved its usefulness to psychiatric clinicians upon its publication six years ago, and it is not surprising to find it now entering a new phase of life in a second edition. The many and significant changes that the reader will find herein reflect not only the rapid growth of knowledge in the field of psy chopharmacology but also the editors' wise awareness of the need to incorpo rate that knowledge into clinical practice. Important new sections have been added on the management of elderly patients, on the pharmacological approach to those with temporal lobe epilepsy, and on the use of psychoactive medications during pregnancy. The existing clinical sections have been expanded, and the format has been altered to make the volume more practi cally useful for the harried clinician. Most important of all, the discussions of individual drugs have been carefully revised to update information about those medications that have stood the test of time and to include those newer pharmacological agents that have appeared on the clini

Who reads The Practitioner’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs?

Author

Stephen C. Schoonover M.D. (auth.), Ellen L. Bassuk M.D., Stephen C. Schoonover M.D., Alan J. Gelenberg M.D. (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306410932

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences