Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications

This is a unique book on a timely topic. It is a well-written, well-organized, comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative coverage of available data on a subject of importance to prescribers of all marketed medications. Readers will judge it a very useful and very helpful data source that will enhance their art of rational, safe, and effective pharmacotherapy. Frank J. Ayd Jr., M.D., Editor, International Drug Therapy Newsletter, Baltimore, Maryland Comprehensive, scholarly, up-to-date and practical, this unique book is the last word on psychiatric side effects of prescribed medications. It is a text for all psychiatrists to keep nearby for reference in everyday clinical practice; and I will use it, as well, to prepare my pharmacology seminars for residents in psychiatry, internal medicine, and family practice. Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

The first book to thoroughly examine how to recognize and manage the psychological side-effects of these medicines, this exhaustive work also provides a fingertip source of vital information for everyone from psychiatrists, primary care doctors and other medical subspecialty practitioners to students, residents and general readers.Both prescription and non-prescription medications used in medicine and psychiatry can cause a varietyof problems for those taking them, both in terms of their behavior and their ability to think. The first book to thoroughly examine how to recognize and manage the psychological side-effects of these medicines, this exhaustive work also provides a fingertip source of vital information for everyone from psychiatrists, primary care doctors and other medical subspecialty practitioners to students, residents and general readers. Noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry, with full chapters on such topics as: • Antipsychotics• Antidepressants• Lithium• Anticonvulsants• Anesthetic agents• Sedative-Hypnotic and related agents• Antibiotics• Cardiovascular agents• Antineoplastic agents• Gastrointestinal agents• Pulmonary agents• Hematologic agents• Antilipemic agents• Drugs affecting the endocrine system Throughout this information-packed reference, the authors, noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire, cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry. They focus on the fundamental ways drugs cause cognitive toxicity and map strategies for clinical management. They also address the consequences of drug interactions and the basic pathophysiology of central nervous system toxicity. With the help of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications, readers will be able to quickly identify the ways drugs sometimes negatively affect behavior and ability to reason, and then determine the best practical course for treating those problems. A CD-ROM containing the complete contents of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over the Counter Medications is included. Fully searchable, this CD-ROM is compatible on both MACINTOSH and WINDOWS systems.