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Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition , this volume is the most authoritative clinical reference on the pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders in elderly patients. This edition provides complete information on new psychotropic drugs, new uses for established drugs, and clinically relevant advances in the neurosciences. Also, four new chapters cover genes, pharmacokinetics, and their impact on prescribing; new cognition enhancing strategies and drugs; late life depression and physical illness; and also depression and cardiac disease in late life. The book offers detailed guidelines including drug names, dosages, and prescribing recommendations for pharmacological treatment of specific disorders. Chapters include clinical vignettes and tables presenting current clinical trial data. Appendices provide succinct information on prescribing and drug interactions. FEATURES: Nume rous tables present current clinical trials Appendices provide succinct information on prescribing and drug interactions Chapters include clinical vignettes to reinforce relevance of information in daily practice NEW TO THIS EDITION: Four new chapters cover genes, pharmacokinetics, and their impact on prescribing; new cognitive-enhancing strategies and drugs; late-life depression and physical illness; and depression and cardiac disease in late life. Complete information on new psychotropic drugs, new uses for established drugs, and clinically relevant advances in the neurosciences

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Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 6 -- No general textbook on geriatric psychiatry can approach the depth of this book's discussions of psychopharmacologic treatment, and no other currently available psychopharmacology textbook discusses the treatment of geriatric patients with comparable range and authority. The new edition remains both unique and indispensable in providing comprehensive background information and informed perspectives that cannot be obtained in any other way. I am among those grateful to Dr. Salzman and his colleagues for providing a new and better edition of a book of exceptional breadth, wisdom, and usefulness.

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