In diesem Buch stehen die kurz-, mittel- und langfristigen Risiken und Schäden psychiatrischer Psychopharmaka auf dem deutschsprachigen Markt (bis 1996) im Mittelpunkt, die sich im Muskelapparat, in den Organen und im vegetativen Bereich niederschlagen, z.
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick “Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent studies in which he has investigated the roots of a kind of psychoactive exploration that we tend to associate with the nineteen-fifties and sixties.
Principles and Practice of Neuropsychopharmacology: A Clinical Reference for Residents, Physicians, and Biomedical Scientists is a concise yet comprehensive book that discusses the drugs used in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases from the perspective of practicing clinicians.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology, Volume 45, presents comprehensive reviews of drug substances and additional materials, with critical review chapters that summarize information related to the characterization of drug substances and excipients.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology, Volume 46 contains comprehensive profiles of five drug compounds: Darunavir, Bisoprolol, Betaxolol, Rabeprazole and Irbesartan.
Most clinicians endorse the combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy as more effective and beneficial than each modality alone, but combining these treatments can be a complicated and highly variable process.
This book aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on psychotropic drugs and inform clinical decisions for the treatment of mental disorders using a problem-solving approach.
Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology, Volume 44, presents comprehensive reviews of drug substances and additional materials, with critical review chapters that summarize information related to the characterization of drug substances and excipients.
Life-Threatening Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs describes in detail more than 20 life-threatening effects associated with antipsychotics, presents the best available data on their incidence and case fatality, and gives comprehensive advice on diagnosis, management and preventive strategies.
Methods in Behavioral Pharmacology is unique in offering a complete description and critical evaluation of most, if not all, methods available to study the effects of drugs on behavior.
La complejidad del uso de antidepresivos, los excelentes resultados obtenidos en el tratamiento de este trastorno y de otras patologías, la seguridad en casos de sobredosis de los nuevos antidepresivos, la gran cantidad de pacientes que padecen este trastorno y la frecuencia con que visitan a los médicos no psiquiatras, por quienes son diagnosticados y tratados con frecuencia equivocadamente, obligaron al autor a realizar la presente obra, con el fin de clarificar el uso de este extenso grupo de medicamentos y facilitar con conocimientos actualizados la prescripción de estos fármacos, que cada vez son más utilizados en todo el mundo.
The troubling increase in treatment resistance in psychiatry has many culprits: the rise of biomedical psychiatry and corresponding sidelining of psychodynamic and psychosocial factors; the increased emphasis on treating the symptoms rather than the person; and a greater focus on the electronic medical record rather than the patient, all of which point to a breakdown in the person-centered prescriber-patient relationship.
This book aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on psychotropic drugs and inform clinical decisions for the treatment of mental disorders using a problem-solving approach.
This unique ground-breaking work, authored by renowned Harvard-based researchers G I Papakostas and M Fava, represents, by far, the most comprehensive compilation to date of medical studies and reports involving the use of antidepressants for the treatment of major depressive disorder, one of the most prevalent and devastating medical illnesses afflicting mankind today.
"Ha sido una grata sorpresa leer este libro Adicción de mi amigo del alma Juan Carlos García, pues su contenido y conceptos son expresados de manera acertada tanto en la experiencia personal como en lo psicológico, con una claridad producto del trasegar en las capas profundas del alma, con el invariable "dolor de crecimiento" que se nota por parte del autor.
La drogadicción es considerada uno de los problemas sociales más apremiantes en la mayoría de las sociedades modernas y les acarrea a estas un elevado costo social y económico, que implica no solo a la sociedad como un todo, sino también a los niños y jóvenes.
Uno de los retos que encontramos con los pacientes psicóticos, especialmente en los denominados "esquizofrénicos", es cómo ayudarles a que las experiencias que sienten como inefables las reconozcan como propias, puedan tolerarlas y verbalizarlas.
Los logros más importantes y más recientes en el campo de la terapia familiar se basan en el abandono de actitudes autoritarias y certezas teóricas a favor de una respetuosa y auténtica colaboración con los clientes.
Our remedies are only as good as the way in which we dispense themThat's the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages pharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a psychiatric medication to young patients not simply as part of a clinical visit, but rather as the beginning of an ongoing alliance with youth and their parents or legal guardians.
*; Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke *; Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, and may be released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title ';the spirit molecule.
Most clinicians endorse the combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy as more effective and beneficial than each modality alone, but combining these treatments can be a complicated and highly variable process.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and other hyperthermic conditions are rare complications of antipsychotic drugs that can cause discomfort, disability, and even death.
Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology is a comprehensive guide to the pharmacology of drugs of abuse and the medications used to treat dependence on those substances.
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANNABIS AND YOUR HEALTHUnderpinned by his two-year research trial in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, involving up to 20,000 patients, which will create Europe's largest body of evidence on the plant's medicinal qualities - Professor David Nutt and his team of scientists will break the mould on the way we use Cannabis for our health in the future.
Methods in Behavioral Pharmacology is unique in offering a complete description and critical evaluation of most, if not all, methods available to study the effects of drugs on behavior.
In line with other volumes in the Neuroscience Perspectives Series, this volume covers the background, pharmacology, molecular biology, and biochemistry of antipsychotic drugs, together with an overview assessment of the therapeutic considerations.
Physiological Pharmacology: A Comprehensive Treatise, Volume II: The Nervous System - Part B, Central Nervous System Drugs focuses on the effects of drugs on the functions of the central nervous system.
