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| Geriatric psychopharmacology | | Author(s) | J Craig Nelson |
| Publisher | Marcel Dekker, New York, 1998 |
| Pages | 469 pp (Medical psychiatry, 9) |
| Source | Marcel Dekker, Inc., Cimarron Road, PO Box 5005, Monticello, NY 12701-5185, USA. |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Psychiatric treatment ; Mental disorder ; Depression ; Psychoses ; Anxiety ; Dementia ; Research. |
| Annotation | Chapters on neurochemistry in ageing, pharmacokinetics, and drug interactions provide a foundation for subsequent chapters which focus on specific disorders. A section on depression - including a research review of maintenance therapies - deals with the treatment of major depression, psychotic depression, and major depressions during bereavement. Part 3 concerns the treatment of depression with associated conditions: cardiac disease, post-stroke psychiatric disorders, cancer, Parkinson's disease, dementia, and medical illness. Little has been written previously regarding treatment of geriatric patients with manic syndromes or bipolar disorders: the use of lithium, its toxicity, and the use of anti-convulsants are discussed. Sections 5 and 6 deal with late-life psychosis, and anxiety disorders (use of sedative hypnotics), including the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The final section, on dementia, discusses use of cognitive enhancers, neuroleptics for behavioural complications, and non-neuroleptic treatment of complications of dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980707209 B |
| Classmark | LLD: LP: E: ENR: EL: ENP: EA: 3A |
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