Cafer's Psychopharmacology is an essential resource for any prescriber of psychiatric medication. Filled with pictures, this book makes complex concepts easy to understand and provides tools for remembering more than you thought possible. To help you match trade names with generic names of 270 medications, this book features mascots akin to the Xyzal "Wise Owl" and Myrbetriq Bladder characters. Each medication's mascot is incorporated into a visual-mnemonic framework designed for recollection of pharmacokinetic interactions. For instance, CYP2C19 substrates are represented as flowers with CYP2C19 inhibitors as watering cans to make the flowers grow. CYP1A2 substrates are trees to be chopped down by axes (CYP1A2 inducers). Lithium is a battery and anything that interferes with its renal excretion is depicted as a battery charger.

"Focusing on the area that many psychiatrists regard as the most complex and challenging to master for the Boards, this book offers extensive practice questions with thoughtful rationales, covering all drug groups and offering clinical vignettes similar to those on ABPN exam"--Provided by publisher.

Cafer's Psychopharmacology is an essential resource for any prescriber of psychiatric medication. Filled with pictures, this book makes complex concepts easy to understand and provides tools for remembering more than you thought possible.To help you match trade names with generic names of 40 medications, this book features mascots akin to the Xyzal "Wise Owl" and Myrbetriq Bladder characters.Each medication's mascot is incorporated into a visual-mnemonic framework designed for recollection of pharmacokinetic interactions. For instance, CYP2C19 substrates are represented as flowers with CYP2C19 inhibitors as watering cans to make the flowers grow. CYP1A2 substrates are trees to be chopped down by axes (CYP1A2 inducers). In addition to antipsychotics, this book features medications used for treatment of antipsychotic-induced side effects, including dopamine-depleting agents and anticholinergics.

From the Cafer's Psychopharmacology series, Mood Stabilizers and Antiepileptics is an essential resource for any prescriber of psychiatric medication. Filled with pictures, this book makes complex concepts easy to understand and provides tools for remembering more than you thought possible. To help you match trade names with generic names of medications, this book features mascots akin to the Xyzal "Wise Owl" and Myrbetriq Bladder characters. Each medication's mascot is incorporated into a visual-mnemonic framework designed for recollection of pharmacokinetic interactions. For instance, CYP2C19 substrates are represented as flowers with CYP2C19 inhibitors as watering cans to make the flowers grow. CYP1A2 substrates are trees to be chopped down by axes (CYP1A2 inducers). Lithium is a battery and anything that interferes with its renal excretion is depicted as a battery charger. This book includes a subset of 46 medication mascots from Cafer's Psychopharmacology, which contains 270. Medications chosen for this edition include lithium, FDA-approved medications for seizure disorders (encompassing all non-lithium mood stabilizers) and all available benzodiazepines and barbiturates (several of which are antiepileptics). Medication mascots included: Lamotrigine (Lamictal), valproate (Depakene, Depakote), carbamazepine (Tegretol), oxcarbazepine (Trileptal), gabapentin (Neurontin), pregabalin (Lyrica), topiramate (Topamax), levetiracetam (Keppra), phenytoin (Dilantin), zonisamide (Zonegran), lacosamide (Vimpat), ethosuximide (Zarontin), eslicarbazepine (Aptiom), rufinamide (Banzel), felbamate (Felbatol), brivaracetam (Briviact), tiagabine (Gabitril), perampanel (Fycompa), cenobamate (Xcopri), vigabatrin (Sabril), cannabidiol (CBD, Epidiolex), phenobarbital (Luminal), primidone (Mysoline), butabarbital (Butisol), mephobarbital (Mebaral), butalbital (Fioricet), secobarbital (Seconal), pentobarbital (Nembutal), amobarbital (Amytal), thiopental (Sodium Pentothal), alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), lorazepam (Ativan), diazepam (Valium), temazepam (Restoril), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), triazolam (Halcion), clorazepate (Tranxene), oxazepam (Serax), flurazepam (Dalmane), estazolam (Prosom), quazepam (Doral), clobazam (Onfi), midazolam (Versed), and flumazenil (Romazicon). There is also a monograph on Virtual Darkness Therapy for bipolar mania.

Cafer's Psychopharmacology is an essential resource for any prescriber of psychiatric medication. Filled with pictures, this unique book makes complex concepts easy to understand and provides tools for remembering more than you thought possible.To help you match trade names with generic names of 270 medications, this book features mascots akin to the Xyzal "Wise Owl" and Myrbetriq Bladder characters.Each medication's mascot is incorporated into a visual-mnemonic framework designed for recollection of pharmacokinetic interactions. For instance, CYP2C19 substrates are represented as flowers with CYP2C19 inhibitors as watering cans to make the flowers grow. CYP1A2 substrates are trees to be chopped down by axes (CYP1A2 inducers). Lithium is a battery and anything that interferes with its renal excretion is depicted as a battery charger. Every psychiatrist has encountered patients on complicated medication regimens, e.g., 3 antipsychotics, 3 antidepressants, a couple of mood stabilizers, a benzo or two, an anticholinergic, plus 6 or 7 drugs for general medical conditions. This book can help you gracefully untangle these polypharmacologic messes.

Algorithms serve an important purpose in the field of psychopharmacology as heuristics for avoiding the biases and cognitive lapses that are common when prescribing for many conditions whose treatment is based on complex data. Unique in the field, this title compiles twelve papers from the Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project at the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program and presents practical ways to adopt evidence-based practices into the day-to-day treatment of patients. Psychopharmacology Algorithms is a useful resource for practicing psychiatrists, residents, and fellows, as well as psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric physician assistants who prescribe, advanced practice pharmacists who prescribe, and primary care clinicians. Teachers of psychopharmacology may find it particularly valuable. Researchers in clinical psychopharmacology may find it helpful in identifying important practice areas that are in need of further study.

"This book has been divided into three main sections. Part I deals with global issues that bear on the assessment and formulation of possible adverse effects and with pertinent concepts related to basic pharmacology, physiology, and medical monitoring. The chapters in Part II present information organized by individual organ systems or specific medical circumstances rather than by drugs or drug classes. This approach seems to provide a logical and comprehensible format that allow readers to search out information as referenced by a particular side effect (and its varied potential causes) and to locate a discussion of practical management strategies. Part III focuses on summary recommendations covering all the material presented in the book and is followed by helpful appendixes on self-assessment questions and resources for practitioners. The book is meant to serve as a ready reference that simultaneously provides scientific and scholarly discussion of available treatment options and presents their scientific rationales."--page xx.