Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future

Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future

Author: Sheldon H. Preskorn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 3642185002

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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.


Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)

Author: S. Clare Stanford

Publisher: Landes Bioscience

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Details advantages and disadvantages of SSRIs. Starts with a personal memoir of the discovery of the first SSRI, then looks at SSRIs from the clinical point of view. Later chapters concentrate on preclinical material. A final chapter makes pharmacological and clinical comparisons between the tricycl


Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Author: Phil Skolnick

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-06-03

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1592594743

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In this book, leading-edge investigators offer effective strategies to improve current antidepressive therapies and suggest molecular, biological, and genetic approaches that will lead to the development of novel antidepressants. The contributors' critical reviews and commentaries illuminate our understanding of the mechanism(s) responsible for antidepressant action. The book's goal is to move beyond current biogenic amine-based concepts and therapies to the development of new and improved antidepressants that are more effective and have a more rapid onset than current.


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

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9241547693

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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

Published: 2020-06-29

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0128201908

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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

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781884735080

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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.


Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Author: Sidney Bloch

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0199638969

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Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years.


Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Author: Matthew Macaluso

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 3030109496

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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.