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Section Contentspsychiatry. Differential therapeutics. Violence and the violent patient. Psychiatric epidemiology. Psychopharmacology: drug side effects and interactions.
Contents
Introduction. Foreword. Section IDifferential diagnosis, natural course, and epidemiology of bipolar disorders. Biological findings in bipolar disorders. Sleep and biological rhythms in bipolar illness. Treatment of bipolar disorders. Psychotherapeutic issues and suicide prevention in the treatment of bipolar disorders. Clinical approaches to treatment-resistant bipolar illness. Afterword. Section II: Neuroscience Techniques in Clinical Psychiatry. Foreword. Psychopharmacology in clinical psychiatry. Psychoendocrinology in clinical practice. Psychoimmunology in clinical psychiatry. The neurobiology of sleep: basic concepts and clinical implications. X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in psychiatry. Functional brain imaging techniques. Afterword. Section III: Differential Therapeutics. Foreword. The setting for psychiatric treatment. Differential therapeutics and treatment format. Strategies and techniques of prescriptive psychotherapeutic intervention. The choice of duration and frequency for outpatient psychotherapy. Differential therapeutics: psychopharmacology. Differential therapeutics: clinical, teaching, research, and administrative issues. Afterword. Section IV: Violence and the Violent Patient. Foreword. Determinants of human violence. Patterns in human violence. Evaluation of the violent patient. Emergency management of violent patients. The long-term treatment of the violent patient. Legal aspects of violence by psychiatric patients. Afterword. Section V: Psychiatric Epidemiology. Foreword. Epidemiology overview. The assessment of psychiatric diagnosis in epidemiological studies. Psychiatric disorders in the community: the epidemiologic catchment area study. Genetic epidemiology of psychiatric disorders. Parental mental disorder as a psychiatric risk factor. Toward the prevention of psychiatric risk disorders. Epidemiologic findings from disaster research. Afterword. Section VI: Psychopharmacology: Drug Side Effects and Interactions. Foreword. Antipsychotic drug side effects. Side effects of antidepressant drugs. Lithium carbonate and carbamazepine side effects. Benzodiazepine side effects. Clinically significant psychoactive drug interactions. Afterword. Index.
