Overview

Cafer's Psychopharmacology is an essential series 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 39 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. In addition to lithium, this book includes all of the major antiepileptic drugs (encompassing all of the mood stabilizers other than lithium) and all available benzodiazepines (about half of which are FDA approved for treatment of seizure disorders).

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Brilliant! Dr. Cafer has done the impossible - made psychopharmacology fun. What a burst of creativity and humor! This book will provide a very valuable service for not only psychiatrists, but for physicians of any specialty, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists and medical students . Colleen Loehr, MD

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Dr Jason Cafer is Medical Director for Behavioral Health Services at SSM Health/St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City, Missouri where he serves as attending physician for a bustling 20-bed acute inpatient psychiatric ward. He graduated from University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 2003 and completed Psychiatric Residency at the same institution in 2007. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is also board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Prior to St. Mary's, he practiced inpatient psychiatry at Fulton State Hospital and outpatient at Comprehensive Health Systems. In 2007 he founded Iconic Health, a medical informatics startup that obtained angel round funding. He was Principal Investigator for Phase I and II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants for Online Rural Telepsychiatry Platform (2007-2009) funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. He is the inventor of United States Patent US8255241B2 which was the subject of an SBIR grant awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services for Medication IconoGraphs: Visualization of Complex Medication Regimens. He completed Cafers' Psychopharmacology while serving as preceptor for Stephens College Master of Physician Assistant Studies program. Dr. Cafer aspires to provide an online Continuing Medical Education course for psychiatrists and other medical professionals.

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