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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential Psychopharmacology Series)

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential Psychopharmacology Series)
Author: Stephen M. Stahl
Creator: Nancy Muntner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
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Pages: 1132
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.6 x 2.4

ISBN: 0521673763
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8918
EAN: 9780521673761
ASIN: 0521673763

Publication Date: March 17, 2008
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Product Description
Essential. Trusted. Indispensable. Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology has established itself as the preeminent source of education and information in its field. This much-expanded third edition relies on advances in neurobiology and recent clinical developments to explain the concepts underlying drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. In addition to redrawn art, an improved and more readable layout, and 30% more illustrations, the Third Edition has four all-new chapters on Psychiatric Genetics, Chronic Pain and Functional Somatic Syndromes, Disorders of Sleep, and Disorders of Cognition. Covered within are new neurotransmitter systems; theories on schizophrenia; clinical advances in antipsychotic and antidepressant therapy; coverage of attention deficit disorder and drug abuse; and new coverage of sleep disorders, chronic pain, and disorders of impulse control. This volume is indispensable for all students and professionals in mental health, enabling them to master the complexities of psychopharmacology.

Book Description
This expanded and fully revised edition explains and illustrates the neurobiological concepts underlying the drug treatment of psychiatric disorders. For the student it provides an easily readable and highly illustrated introduction to the subject. For the physician or scientist it offers a quick review of psychopharmacology and the drug treatment of mental illness.


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3 out of 5 stars Util pero cuestionable   July 2, 2008
Util: La cantidad de informacion resumida, sistematizada y esquematizada, de facil y amena lectura.

Cuestionable: Para empezar, no tanto el grado de simplificacion, como el grado de parcializacion, fragmentacion y reduccion de los contenidos referentes al funcionamiento normal y anormal del Sistema Nervioso Central, con un sesgo explicito hacia aquellos aspectos que ayudarian a entender mejor el supuesto funcionamiento de los psicofarmacos, y con un sesgo implicito hacia la altamente cuestionable premisa de que los psicofarmacos que hoy conocemos actuan verdaderamente sobre los fenomenos fundamentales de la "fisiopatologia" neuro-psiquiatrica (suposicion cada vez mas cuestionable). Stahl parece querer explicarnos por que y como es que funcionan los psicofarmacos (con esquematismos que a menudo llegan a ser no solo inaceptablemente sobresimplificados, sino tambien francamente inverosimiles), sin la menor intencion de explicarnos por que y como -si todo lo que nos explica es cierto- es que funcionan tan modestamente y en un porcentaje a veces tan reducido de pacientes. Como resultado, el aprendiz se vera tentado a basar sus prescripciones en el supuesto conocimiento de por que tal o cual farmaco DEBIERA funcionar en tal o cual paciente (o en tal o cual sintoma!), sin preguntarse mas bien por la evidencia acerca de si dicho farmaco funciona o no funciona realmente, y hasta que punto... El posible riesgo de todo esto, es una peligrosa tendencia a la sobreprescripcion y a la malprescripcion (el posible beneficio, el mantenido enriquecimiento de la industria farmaceutica).

Tambien parece cuestionable el enfoque akiskaliano de los trastornos del animo (que conduce a una mayor prescripcion de profilacticos de fase, antipsicoticos atipicos y otros), y la presuncion (a la DSM) de que todos los trastornos del animo merecen el estatuto implicito de enfermedad (en el sentido de la medicina cientifica), y deben ser tratados por lo tanto con medicamentos. El resultado, nuevamente: la sobreprescripcion, incluyendo aqui la indicacion de farmacos para el tratamiento de crisis vitales, reacciones vivenciales, dificultades de adaptacion, cuadros de estres laboral, disfunciones conyugales y familiares, y un larguisimo etcetera; todos casos que, cumpliendo los criterios diagnosticos de un 'episodio depresivo mayor' u otros, cabrian tambien (o 'en vez') en la categoria de reacciones depresivas, depresiones neuroticas / neurosis depresivas, disforias histeroides, depresiones caracterologicas, cuadros de ajuste, etc. Ningun clinico honesto y experimentado puede creer que esta distincion -esfumada como por arte de magia por el DSM- haya dejado de ser fundamental en la practica.

Por ultimo, la cantidad de afirmaciones del tipo 'pudiera ser que', 'es probable que', 'hipoteticamente' o 'teoricamente', no hacen mas que alimentar todas nuestras dudas, si bien trasuntan un loable matiz de honestidad de parte del autor (hasta el punto de que en algunos pasajes nos advierte algo asi como: las cosas son mucho mas complejas y bien distintas en la realidad, pero bueno, vamos a hacer como que son asi como se las estoy mostrando en estas laminitas tan lindas y explicativas, para que no nos compliquemos la existencia...). No deja de ser interesante, en todo caso, que la asi llamada 'psiquiatria biologica' (supuestamente, la mas 'cientifica' de 'las psiquiatrias') termine aglutinando tantas conjeturas, supuestos y especulaciones como cualquier corriente psicologica de los ultimos cien anos (y quizas mas...)

En suma: Un libro digno de ser leido y estudiado, PERO con el sentido critico bien despierto...



3 out of 5 stars The Mausdley Prescribing Guidelines are MUCH Better   June 13, 2008
Buy this book instead: The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Ninth Edition!

Stahl's bood would have been better titled "The PDR Companion for Psychiatrists." Listing each medicaiton in alphabetical order is a good idea but only as far as it goes, which is not very far.

The MAUDSLEY PRESCRIBING GUIDELIENS give more guidance about chosing and using medications. The MPG covers alot of material and is easy to read. The sections I use most include a table about timimg the cross tapering or time between using one antidepressant and another, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line medications for treating treatment resistant depression. Examples of the many other great sections include monitoring for metabolic sysdrome and QTc, for example.

Of course, the best idea is to have the MPG and have Stalh for when your other books with alphabetical lists of drugs are insufficinet. Stahl can console himself that California Rocket Fuel is now in the list of first line interventions for treatment resistant depression. (In the previous edition it was not). It is a pity the MPG does not refer to California Rocket fuel by name but just refers to "SSRI or venlafaxine + mianserin or mirtazapine" - how the hell will you get maximum placebo effect if you don't know the name of the combination?



5 out of 5 stars The one book that needs to be in your library   June 5, 2008
Dr. Stahl and Nancy Munter have outdone themselves once again. While the bar they have set is always high, this is the best book they have produced to date. Details are rich and easily understood - they even include tyramine content by brand. Everyone involved in treating patients needs to have this book in their library AND read it.


5 out of 5 stars Great book!   May 11, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This new edition of Stahl's easy and delicious "Essential" surprises me. Some people who doen't like this book argues that the book is too superficial in some issues. I desagreee. The very title of the book already shows their propose. It's a book about ESSENTIAL psychopharmacology, make it easy and beaultiful. Thanks, Stahl, for bring us, again, with this piece of joy.
Wilson Conte de Las Villas Rodrigues
Psychiatric Enfermary
Assis Regional Hospital
Sao Paulo, Brasil.



1 out of 5 stars Dangerous text.   February 16, 2008
 17 out of 25 found this review helpful

Psychopharmocology easy to do badly and very difficult to do well. As a second year psychiatry resident in 1999 I thought this book was awesome - psych meds made easy, with neat pictures, and cool names like "California Rocket Fuel." Now that I practice general psychiatry in the community I realize that this book is misleading and potentially dangerous. One, it oversimplifies the neurobiology of psychotropics - although that is not all that serious a problem. More importantly, it encourages approaching real treatment decisions by thinking about neurotransmitters, not the REAL source of any actual knowledge we have about how these meds work - clinical trials. The result is that I have seen many prescribers think about tweaking chemical or treating each symptom with a different med, frequently leading to expensive and often dangerous polypharmacy. For a cartoon-like overview for a non prescribing practitioner, this is an entertaining but inaccurate introduction to psychopharm; for someone who will actually use this to guide their prescribing - your patients deserve better.

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