The Mount Sinai Expert Guides provide quick access to point-of-care specialist clinical information for physicians across a range of therapeutic areas.

For each specialty area, the guides emphasize:

- Common pitfalls in diagnosis and management

- How to prevent complications

- Diagnostic and treatment algorithms

- Key scientific trials

- Evidence-based clinical content

- Major society guidelines

in order to summarize the very latest in diagnosis and management of diseases and related symptoms.

Edited by renowned specialists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, key faculty members provide the content for all chapters. To ensure consistency within each book and the series as a whole, chapters follow a unified structure throughout.

Bonus features such as online case studies with related questions for self-assessment, key patient advice, and ICD codes are provided via the series companion website.

Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be.

This book is accompanied by a companion website:

www.mountsinaiexpertguides.com/psychiatry

Asher B. Simon, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Director of Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Antonia S. New, MD
Professor of Psychiatry; Vice Chair for Education; Director of Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Wayne K. Goodman, MD
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor; Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health System; Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA&

Series editor

Scott L. Friedman, MD
Fishberg Professor of Medicine; Dean for Therapeutic Discovery; Chief, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA