Concise clinical pharmacology : CNS therapeutics / John P. Blass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blass, John P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropharmacology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Neuropharmacology.

Neuropsychopharmacology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Neuropsychopharmacology.

Central Nervous System Diseases--drug therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Central Nervous System Diseases--drug therapy.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

x, 490 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

CNS therapeutics

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, [2007]

Summary:

Part of the Concise Clinical Pharmacology series, CNS Therapeutics features a highly accessible and readable approach to CNS pharmacology, therapeutics, and disorders, simplifying and expediting critical diagnosis and prescribing decisions. Along with simplified and elegant coverage of all major, currently approved therapies, CNS Therapeutics offers real-world perspectives on using therapeutic agents in the actual care of patients. CNS Therapeutics gives you all the practice-proven CNS pharmacology insights you'll ever...need right in the palm of your hand.

CNS Therapeutics features: A clinical review of the clinical pharmacology of specific psychiatric and neurologic disorders, Updated coverage of all major, currently approved neurologic and psychiatric therapies, Coverage of pharmacologic interactions with both FDA-approved and "complementary" therapeutics.

Contents:

General principles

Mood disorders: depression and mania

Thought disorders: including schizophrenias and related psychoses

Cognitive disorders: delirium and dementia

Anxiety

Pain

Sleep

Cerebrovascular disorders

Disorders of awareness: dizziness, fainting, fits, stupor, and coma and related conditions

Disorders of motility: including Parkinson Disease and other movement disorders

Disorders of sensation

Disorders of both sensation and motility: multiple sclerosis and related disorders; neuropathies

Disorders of conduct.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0071440364

9780071440363

OCLC:

71223087

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