Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential Psychopharmacology Series)

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology is intended as a primer text for this field, and can be read cover to cover by anyone from the novice to the expert. Expanded and fully revised, this third edition enlists advances in neurobiology and recent clinical developments to explain with renewed clarity the concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. Features of this edition are clinical advances in antipsychotic and antidepressant therapy. It includes new coverage of sleep disorders, chronic pain, and disorders of impulse control. This remains the essential text for students, scientists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. With this fully revised fourth edition, Dr Stahl returns to the essential roots of what it means to become a neurobiologically empowered psychopharmacologist, expertly guided in the selection and combination of treatments for individual patients in practice. Embracing the unifying themes of 'symptom endophenotypes', dimensions of psychopathology that cut across syndromes, and 'symptoms and circuits', every aspect of the text has been updated to the frontiers of current knowledge, with the clarity of explanation and illustration that only Dr Stahl can bring. Integrating much of the basic neuroscience into the clinical chapters, and with major additions in the areas of psychosis, antipsychotics, antidepressants, impulsivity, compulsivity and addiction, this is the single most readily readable source of information on disease and drug mechanisms. This remains the essential text for all students and professionals in mental health seeking to understand and utilize current therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications. Structure and function of neurons Synaptic neurotransmission and the anatomically addressed nervous system Signal transduction and the chemically addressed nervous system Transporters and G-protein linked receptors as targets of psychopharmacological drug action Ion channels and enzymes as targets of psychopharmacological drug action Psychiatric genetics Circuits in psychopharmacology From circuits to symptoms in psychopharmacology Psychosis and schizophrenia Antipsychotic agents Mood disorders Antidepressants Mood stabilizers Anxiety and anxiolytics Chronic pain, functional somatic syndromes, and their treatment Disorders of sleep and wakefulness and their treatment Disorders of cognition and their treatment Disorders of reward, drug abuse, and their treatment. "This fully revised and expanded Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, Third Edition, enlists advances in neurobiology and recent clinical developments to explain with renewed clarity the concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. Clinical advances in antipsychotic and antidepressant therapy are discussed in detail; new, expanded material includes coverage of sleep disorders, obesity, addiction, chronic pain, and disorders of impulse control. The text also features four new chapters on psychiatric genetics, pain management, treatment of cognitive disorders, and treatment of sleep disorders The text is also visually enhanced by art that has been increased by 100% and completely redrawn and a layout that has been completely redesigned for increased user friendliness. CME is also offered through questions available on the website of the Neuroscience Education Institute at NElglobal.com. Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, Third Edition, remains the essential text for students, scientists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals."--Jacket This is a bundle, comprising the 3rd edition of Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology text, with access to a 1-year subscription to Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Online. Modern psychopharmacology is largely the story of chemical neurotransmission.