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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Describes the latest advances in psychopharmacology - one of the most rapidly developing fields in modern science. This latest edition has been updated to cover new developments in drug therapy and research including newly introduced antipsychotics, antidepressants and antidementia drugs. Sections on the treatment of depression and dementia have been revised to include new developments in treatment strategies. It will be welcomed for its essentially clinical and psychological approach to modern pharmaceuticals, their therapeutic uses and limitations, adverse reactions and future directions for research.
An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie. Written in plain English, it should be accessible to anyone who is intellectually curious, lay persons and medical professionals alike.
Modern medicine is now in a position to make advanced prognoses that chart the entire course of illness and recovery. Paradoxically, this is coupled with a new dimension of uncertainty for the patient, i.e. coming to terms with discovering they have an increased risk of a particular disease and deciding what appropriate steps to take.
The seventeenth annual symposium sponsored by the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences was held October 23-26, 1983, in Houston, Texas. The theme was Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny. This volume on biomedical aspects and a companion volume on psycho social aspects include edited versions of the presentations by about 80 speakers. Their papers were directed at practitioners, researchers, and medical educators who will be active and productive in the year 2000, and we focused on those who would influence the evolution of care of elderly persons during the next 17 years. We chose topics that would be of particular interest to teachers and current planners in the disciplines concerned...
Der Band liefert eine umfassende Sammlung von Verfahrensbeschreibungen zu den wichtigsten Klinischen Interviews und Ratingskalen (Fremdbeurteilungsverfahren). Nach einer kurzen Einführung, die einen systematischen Überblick über die im Buch enthaltenen Verfahren gibt und diese verschiedenen Aufgabenbereichen zuordnet, werden 91 Erhebungsinstrumente unter einheitlichen Gesichtspunkten beschrieben. Die einheitlichen Verfahrensbeschreibungen ermöglichen einen schnellen Zugang zu den wichtigsten Informationen: Neben den Autoren wreden zu Beginn jeder Verfahrensbeschreibung die Bezugsquelle sowie eventuell vorhandene Vorgänger- oder Originalversionen des Verfahrens aufgeführt. Angaben zum A...