Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future

Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future
Author: Sheldon H. Preskorn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3642185002

A comprehensive review of the current status of antidepressants - how we arrived at this point in their evolution and where we are going in both the near and the long term. It employs both a scientific and historical approach to accomplish these goals. This volume is intended for practitioners who use antidepressants on a daily basis in their practice as well as for the student and researcher. Each will find that it provides a comprehensive and logical approach to this important group of medications. This book is being published as we mark the end of the first 50 years of the modern antidepressant era.

Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future

Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future
Author: Renato D. Alarcón
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2004-02-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783540430544

With contribution by numerous experts

Listening to Prozac

Listening to Prozac
Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 481
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0140266712

The New York Times bestselling examination of the revolutionary antidepressant, with a new introduction and afterword reflecting on Prozac’s legacy and the latest medical research “Peter Kramer is an analyst of exceptional sensitivity and insight. To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” —Joyce Carol Oates When antidepressants like Prozac first became available, Peter D. Kramer prescribed them, only to hear patients say that on medication, they felt different—less ill at ease, more like the person they had always imagined themselves to be. Referencing disciplines from cellular biology to animal ethology, Dr. Kramer worked to explain these reports. The result was Listening to Prozac, a revolutionary book that offered new perspectives on antidepressants, mood disorders, and our understanding of the self—and that became an instant national and international bestseller. In this thirtieth anniversary edition, Dr. Kramer looks back at the influence of his groundbreaking book, traces progress in the relevant sciences, follows trends in the use and public understanding of antidepressants, and assesses potential breakthroughs in the treatment of depression. The new introduction and afterword reinforce and reinvigorate a book that the New York Times called “originally insightful” and “intelligent and informative,” a window on a medicine that is “telling us new things about the chemistry of human character.”

Pharmacological Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Health Care

Pharmacological Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Health Care
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9241547693

This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.

Rapid Acting Antidepressants

Rapid Acting Antidepressants
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128201908

The Advances in Pharmacology series presents a variety of chapters from the best authors in the field. - Includes the authority and expertise of leading contributors in pharmacology - Presents the latest release in the Advances in Pharmacology series

Clinical Pharmacology of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

Clinical Pharmacology of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Author: Sheldon Preskorn
Publisher: Professional Communications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Antidepressants
ISBN: 9781884735080

Provides a summary of the clinically relevant pharmacology of five different SSRIs in a manner that is user-friendly. The goal of this book is to facilitate the optimum use of this important class of antidepressants.

Antidepressants

Antidepressants
Author: Matthew Macaluso
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030109496

This volume reviews the known neurobiology of depression and combines classic data on antidepressant treatments with modern theory on the physiology of depression. It also discusses novel mechanism of action drugs.

Outpatient Management of Depression

Outpatient Management of Depression
Author: Sheldon H. Preskorn
Publisher: Professional Communications
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009
Genre: Ambulatory medical care
ISBN: 1932610359

This book provides a system for rapid diagnosis and efficient management of depression, including patient education, brief supportive counseling, and medication. It also focuses on treatment with antidepressant medications, including when to initiate treatment, antidepressant pharmacology, how to select the appropriate medication, and how to manage treatment failures. The results of the STAR*D trial are reviewed in detail.

Still Down

Still Down
Author: Dean F. MacKinnon
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1421421062

"Many people have depression symptoms that resist treatment. Despite medications, psychotherapy, and sometimes electroconvulsive therapy, these people don't feel well. What can they do to feel better? Dr. Dean MacKinnon, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, specializes in finding out why treatment hasn't been helpful for a patient, and in helping that patient feel better. In Still Down, Dr. MacKinnon uses case studies of such individuals to reassess treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and explore what's going on with people who don't feel better, even with treatment. As some of the cases illustrate, some people who have been diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression have depression that actually will respond to appropriate treatment--but they have not yet received appropriate treatment. Other cases illustrate what happens when someone is incorrectly diagnosed with depression; that person needs treatment for a different disorder, not for depression. Finally, some cases illustrate people who have depression that does not respond to treatment for depression, regardless of how finely tuned the treatment is. These people, who have true TRD, can benefit from a variety of treatments alone or in combination, and even though they may not feel entirely well, they can feel better. Writing for people who have treatment-resistant depression and their families, as well as medical professionals and mental health care providers, MacKinnon hopes to help people with depression get appropriate diagnoses and treatment. He also hopes to improve care providers' understanding of treatment-resistant depression, by identifying aspects of the individual's qualities, behaviors, and experiences that may account for poor response to treatment"--