Advances in Psychopharmacology: Improving Treatment Response

by Mark S. Gold and John S. Carman

The book focuses on the prediction and optimization of pharmacological treatment of psychiatric patients. Topics covered include the importance of accurate psychiatric diagnosis, medical problems which can mimic psychiatric illness, and the interface between psychiatric illness and opiate addiction and alcoholism. Current literature on predicting responses to antidepressants, lithium, antipsychotics and antianxiety agents is summarized. This practical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849356806
• ISBN13: 9780849356803
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.