Both prescription and non-prescription medications used in medicine and psychiatry can cause a varietyof problems for those taking them, both in terms of their behavior and their ability to think. The first book to thoroughly examine how to recognize and manage the psychological side-effects of these medicines, this exhaustive work also provides a fingertip source of vital information for everyone from psychiatrists, primary care doctors and other medical subspecialty practitioners to students, residents and general readers. Noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry, with full chapters on such topics as:

• Antipsychotics• Antidepressants• Lithium• Anticonvulsants• Anesthetic agents• Sedative-Hypnotic and related agents• Antibiotics• Cardiovascular agents• Antineoplastic agents• Gastrointestinal agents• Pulmonary agents• Hematologic agents• Antilipemic agents• Drugs affecting the endocrine system

Throughout this information-packed reference, the authors, noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire, cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry. They focus on the fundamental ways drugs cause cognitive toxicity and map strategies for clinical management. They also address the consequences of drug interactions and the basic pathophysiology of central nervous system toxicity. With the help of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications, readers will be able to quickly identify the ways drugs sometimes negatively affect behavior and ability to reason, and then determine the best practical course for treating those problems.

A CD-ROM containing the complete contents of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over the Counter Medications is included. Fully searchable, this CD-ROM is compatible on both MACINTOSH and WINDOWS systems.

Dr. Alan Stoudemire is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. He is Director of the Medical-Psychiatry Unit at Emory University Hospital and Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. He and Dr. Fogel are internationally recognized experts on the treatment of psychiatric disorders in medical patients.

Dr. Barry S. Fogel is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, and Associate Director of its Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. He also directs the medical student education program in psychiatry at Brown. He has published numerous articles and several books on diagnostic and therapeutic issues in the psychiatric treatment of the medically ill.