Atlas of psychiatric pharmacotherapy
2000; BMJ; Volume: 68; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/jnnp.68.2.256a
ISSN1468-330X
Autores Tópico(s)Treatment of Major Depression
ResumoAtlas of psychiatric pharmacotherapy . By roni shiloh, david nutt,and abraham weizman. (Pp 235, £49.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 1999. ISBN 1–85317–630–3. What I liked most reading through the Shiloh, Nutt, and Weizman's Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy is its completeness. It is indeed a miniencyclopaedia of basic and clinical psychopharmacology, divided into four main sections: basic principles of psychiatric pharmacotherapy, abused substances, drug interactions, and treatment strategies. As a basic science researcher, I like the fact that these authors succeed, in the first section, in the very difficult task of translating complex biochemical mechanisms into concise pictures and legends. I particularly like those on second messengers/signal transduction pathways, as these are rare to find and difficult to understand in other books. Switching to more specific psychopharmacology topics, the tables explaining the mechanisms of action of the various drugs are also very well made and updated. For example, the tables illustrating the mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs go beyond the “catecholamine hypothesis” into explaining the effects, at the genomic level, on the synthesis of growth factors. There …
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