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The Evidence-Based Guide to Antipsychotic Medications is designed to provide both clinicians and residents with focused, comprehensive, and clinically relevant information regarding the use of antipsychotic medications to treat a broad range of psychiatric conditions—from mood and anxiety disorders to substance abuse, personality disorders, and schizophrenia.
The volume editor is a renowned
psychiatrist and author with more than 25 years of experience in both
clinical and research settings diagnosing and treating patients with mood
and psychotic disorders. In addition, each of the volume's 13 contributors
is an expert with many years of clinical experience to draw on.The book is
down-to-earth and reader-friendly and is structured for maximal utility in
both coverage and format:
• Key Clinical Points cap each chapter, synthesizing and summarizing
the knowledge you can take away, and serving both as a refresher for those
using the book as a reference and as a study aid to master the
material.
• Both FDA-approved and off-label use of antipsychotic
medications are addressed, reflecting the reality of clinical practice on
the front lines.
• Use of antipsychotic medications in both the
pediatric and geriatric populations, a potentially controversial subject, is
addressed in a nonsensational, straight-forward manner.
• The Appendixes
provide a wealth of information in tabular format, including drug tables
(names, strengths, formulations, pharmacokinetics, and dosing); advice on
initiating and monitoring antipsychotic medications; common side effects and
their management; and special considerations for use during pregnancy and
breastfeeding.
The Evidence-Based Guide to Antipsychotic Medications is the first in a new series that strives to take evidence-based psychiatry from gold standard to standard practice. Scientifically up-to-date and rigorous, yet accessible and easy to understand, this volume stands alone as an indispensable resource on the topic.
This book is an excellent resource for clinicians treating
patients with
psychiatric disorders. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Graduate students through professionals/practitioners.
This is a good, practical, evidence-based clinical approach to the use of antipsychotic medications for a variety of disorders and in special populations. The pages are of high quality paper that resists tearing and makes annotation easy. The tables and bullet-point summaries are very useful in comprehending the material. I appreciated the appendixes, which are a useful review of some key core points in the usage of antipsychotics. This is a good evidence-based guide that any clinician can pick up and use - and it is reasonably priced.
— Steve Paschos, M.D.
Anthony J. Rothschild, M.D., is Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Healthcare in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Disclaimer
Chapter
1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective
Disorder
Chapter 3. Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 4.
Personality Disorders
Chapter 5. Substance Abuse Disorders
Chapter
6. Use of Antipsychotics in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 7. Use of
Antipsychotics in Geriatric Patients
Chapter 8. Use of Antipsychotics in
Medically Ill Patients
Appendix 1: Names, Strengths, and Formulations of
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics
Appendix 2: Pharmacokinetics
of First- and Second- Generation Antipsychotics
Appendix 3: Dosing and
Administration of First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics in
Schizophrenia
Appendix 4: Medical Workup When Initiating and Continuing
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics
Appendix 5: Medical Workup
When Initiating and Continuing Clozapine
Appendix 6: Use of First- and
Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Agitation Due to Psychosis
Appendix
7: Side Effects of Commonly Used Antipsychotics
Appendix 8: Management
of Treatment-Emergent Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medications
Appendix
9: Use of First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Pregnancy and
Lactation
Index