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Product Description: For over thirty years the benzodiazepines monopolised not only the anxiolytic market but also clinical and animal research in anxiety. Indeed many animal tests developed since the 1960s have been optimised for the benzodiazepines and some programmes have even screened candidates as potential anxiolytics on their benzodiazepine-like side-effects rather than their anxiolytic activity...read more

Product Description: The second edition of this exceptional book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of action involved in psychiatric pharmacotherapy. Using imaginative colourful double-page spreads, this exceptional book presents state-of-the-art information on all the basic principles of psychiatric pharmacotherapy, abused substances, drug interactions, and treatment strategies...read more

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Product Description: Following the success of Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy, this text explores the subject further. It distills that comprehensive survey of the medical literature into the most salient topics. The author focuses not only on the most frequently prescribed drugs, including antidepressants and antipsychotics, but also on how drugs interact with each other and how they are abused...read more