Clinical Geriatric Psychopharmacology is the most authoritative clinical reference on the pharmacologic treatment of psychiatric disorders in elderly patients.

Clinical Geriatric Psychopharmacology, Fourth Edition provides complete information on new psychotropic drugs, new uses for established drugs, and clinically relevant advances in the neurosciences.

Four new chapters cover genes, pharmacokinetics, and their impact on prescribing; new cognitive-enhancing strategies and drugs; late-life depression and physical illness; and depression and cardiac disease in late life.

Clinical Geriatric Psychopharmacology offers detailed guidelines—including drug names, dosages, and prescribing recommendations—for pharmacologic treatment of specific disorders.

Chapters include clinical vignettes and tables presenting current clinical trial data.

Appendices provide succinct information on prescribing and drug interactions.

Contents:

1. Older Americans and mental illness
2. Drug prescribing, adverse reactions, and compliance in elderly patients
3. The cost of psychotropic drug use for the elderly
4. Neurotransmission in the aging central nervous system
5. Kinetics and dynamics of psychotropic drugs in the elderly
6. Diagnosis of late-life disordered behavior, agitation, and psychosis
7. Treatment of late-life disordered behavior, agitation, and psychosis
8. Diagnosis of late-life depression
9. Treatment of depression with tricyclic antidepressants, MAOIs, and psychostimulants
10. Treatment of depression with new and atypical antidepressants
11. Treatment of late-life depression associated with medical illness
12. Diagnosis and treatment of late-life bipolar disorder
13. Electroconvulsive therapy in late-life depression
14. Response prediction, maintenance treatment, and late-life depression
15. Diagnosis of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders
16. Treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders
17. The impact of age on sleep and sleep disorders
18. Treatment of insomnia in the elderly
19. Neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease
20. Treatment of dementia

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