This practical guide will aid residents and clinicians in diagnosing and treating the full spectrum of mood disorders. Dr. Ghaemi explains how to accurately diagnose depressive and manic symptoms and bipolar disorder and offers specific, detailed, evidence-based recommendations on pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of acute and refractory unipolar depression, bipolar depression, and mania. Chapters review the pharmacology of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotic agents and point out these drugs’ advantages and drawbacks in specific clinical situations. Other chapters address clinical dilemmas such as treating rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, distinguishing unipolar from bipolar depression, and tapering bipolar depressed patients off antidepressants.
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Dr. Ghaemi is one of the foremost researchers, along with Goodwin, in the area of bipolar disorder. While this book is aimed at the professional audience, it is filled with nuggets of practical information, and provides the patient with an understanding of a rational approach to the treatment of bipolar disorder, including drugs, dosing, side effects, and psychotherapeutic treatment. It is concise and to the point.
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An exceptionally concise and coherent handbook,
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An exceptionally concise and coherent handbook which would appear to leave no room for misinterpretation or misdirection in the course of clinician reaching the diagnosis of a mood disorder. In particular, the full bipolar spectrum is propounded magnificently and with great clarity. This is a manual which is written for a professional audience, and therefore I believe the educated lay-reader will benefit significantly from reading this material over any similarly oriented mainstream press. I have, personally, found this book extremely helpful, and I would recommend it wholeheartedly as the most practical and readable book I have ever encountered on the subject of mood disorders.
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The best psychopharmacology guide available,
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The author exhibits a rare quality for an academic in medicine, honesty. While most psychopharmacology texts contain the usual Big Pharma talking points,Ghaemi is not afraid to speak the truth. For example, when discussing the STAR D study results he states the truth; SSRIs,and SNRIs are barely more effective than placebo. He also has the honesty to accurately describe Olanzapine as "not a mood stablizer" despite FDA approval. Ghaemi does has some lapses in his otherwise very logical honest review of psychopharmacology for mood disorders. For example, he uses very convoluted logic , in an effort to make the point Neurontin still might be effective as a psychotropic. Overall, this book is excellent
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Mood disorders are central to any diagnostic evaluation in psychiatry; this is so because of the concept of a diagnostic hierarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mood disorders are central to any diagnostic evaluation in psychiatry; this is so because of the concept of a diagnostic hierarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spontaneous manic episode, refractory unipolar depression, mania switch rate, proven mood stabilizers, olanzapine for acute mania, acute bipolar depression, multiple mood stabilizers, bipolar disorder type, misdiagnosed bipolar disorder, standard mood stabilizers, nonrecurrent depression, term mood stabilizer, primary mood stabilizers, atypical neuroleptic agents, more mood episodes, serotonin withdrawal, depressive mixed state, past mania, valproate loading, recurrent unipolar depressive disorder, refractory bipolar disorder, nuisance side effects, treating acute mania, apathy syndrome, recurrent unipolar depression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Relieve Depression, New York, Terrence Ketter, National Institute of Mental Health, Rapid Cycling Browse Sample Pages:
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