Description
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive, literature-based but clinically oriented overview of the pervasive neurological adverse effects that frequently affect those receiving antipsychotic (and pharmacologically related) drugs, giving valuable information to the wide range of healthcare professionals who prescribe and monitor these extensively utilised therapeutic agents.
Trade Review'This is an outstanding update of a very instructive book and should be mandatory reading for all trainees in psychiatry residency training programs - as well as their program directors … This book is like finding an oasis in a vast desert.' Doody's Reviews
Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The origins of psychopharma; 2. Some preliminaries; Part II. The Syndromes: 3. Acute dystonias; 4. Parkinsonism; 5. Akathisia; 6. Tardive dyskinesia; Part III. Particular Issues: 7. Tardive and chronic dystonia; 8. Special populations; Part IV. Assessment: 9. The clinical examination; 10. An overview of some standardised recording instruments; Part V. Matters Arising: 11. Involuntary movements and schizophrenia: a limitation to the concept of tardive dyskinesia?; 12. And finally … the salutary tale of 'atypicality'; References; Index.
