Concise Clinicial Pharmacology Book

Preface     ix
Introduction     1
General Principles     9
Medications as Chemicals     9
Classification of Medications Acting on the Nervous System     10
Blood-Brain Barrier     11
Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics     13
Drug Action and Human Variation     18
Talk Therapy and Drug Therapy     20
Mood Disorders: Depression and Mania     25
Depression     26
Mania     35
Manic-Depressive Disease     36
Suicide     38
Medications for Depression     42
Medications for Mania and Manic-Depressive Illness     60
Treatment of Acute Psychosis by the General Clinician     69
Nonpharmacological Treatments     70
Thought Disorders: Including Schizophrenias and Related Psychoses     75
Classification and Diagnosis     78
Neurobiology     81
Treatment     86
Treatment of Acute Psychotic Emergencies     99
Nonpharmacological Treatments     100
Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia     105
Incidence and Prevalence     106
Classification and Diagnosis     107
Neurobiology of Delirium and Dementia: General Considerations     127
Pathophysiology of Specific Forms of Dementia     131
Treatment     136
Anxiety     163
Classification and Diagnosis     164
Neurobiology     173
Treatment     174
Pain     185
Classification and Diagnosis     185
Neurobiology     195
Treatment     197
Sleep     225
Classification and Diagnosis     226
Neurobiology     235
Treatments     240
Cerebrovascular Disorders     255
Classification and Diagnosis     256
Neurobiology     266
Treatment     267
Disorders of Awareness: Dizziness, Fainting, Fits, Stupor, and Coma and Related Conditions     283
Dizziness     284
Fainting     286
Fits (Seizures)     289
Stupor     303
Coma     303
Brain Stem Compression (Herniation, "Coning")     309
Other Conditions     313
Disorders of Motility: Including Parkinson Disease and Other Movement Disorders     319
Classification and Diagnosis      320
Diagnostic Considerations for Disorders of Motility Involve both Questions of Mechanism and Recognition of Certain Common Syndromes (Clinical Entities)     331
Neurobiology     341
Treatment     348
Disorders of Sensation     371
Classification and Diagnosis     371
Disorders of Special Sensations     372
Neurobiology     383
Treatment     385
Disorders of Both Sensation and Motility: Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders; Neuropathies     391
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)     392
Other Disorders of Myelin     401
Motor-Sensory Neuropathies     403
Disorders of Conduct     415
Learned Maladaptive Behavior     415
Somatoform Disorders     417
Sexual Disorders     422
Personality Disorders     428
Adjustment Disorders and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder     435
Impulse Control Disorders     436
Addiction/Substance Abuse     438
Index     469