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Cutting-Edge Medicine: What Psychiatrists Need to Know offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in cardiovascular illness, gastrointestinal disorders, transplant medicine, and premenstrual mood disorders. With todays rapid and continuous advances in medicine, this book will help psychiatrists become familiar with new technologies and knowledgeable about how these sophisticated medical treatmentshigh-technology cardiac care, organ transplantation, and new psychotropic, immunosuppressant, and antiretroviral drugsinteract with other disorders and medications. Chapter 1, Mind and Heart: The Interplay Between Psychiatric and Cardiac Illness, reviews recent findings on the links between psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety) and cardiovascular disease. The existence of a similar reciprocal relationship between psychiatric/behavioral disorders and the organs of the gastrointestinal system is the topic of Chapter 2, Psychiatric Aspects of Gastroenterology. In Chapter 3, Psychiatric Overview of Solid Organ Transplantation, the difficult road from pretransplant screening to posttransplant recovery is explored, with a focus on how the psychiatrist can help patients and families navigate inevitable uncertainties, demands, and setbacks. The final chapter, Psychiatric Disorders and the Menstrual Cycle, summarizes what is known about the etiology and treatment of premenstrual mood disorders. In each chapter, the authors select and deftly synthesize what is relevant clinically as well as essential technically. The medical identity of psychiatrists is emphasized throughout. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners of psychiatry and related disciplines.

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