David M. Taylor, BSc, MSc, PhD, FFRPS, FRPharmS, FRCPsych (Hon) is Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the Maudsley Hospital and Professor of Psychopharmacology at King's College, London.
 
Thomas R. E. Barnes, MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, DSc, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Imperial College London and joint-head of the Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement.
 
Allan H. Young, MB, ChB, MPhil, PhD, FRCPC, FRCPsych, is Chair of Mood Disorders and is Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, UK.

Preface xi
 
Acknowledgments xii
 
Notes on using The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry xiii
 
List of abbreviations xv
 
Part 1 Drug treatment of major psychiatric conditions 1
 
Chapter 1 Schizophrenia and related psychoses 3
 
ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS 3
 
ANTIPSYCHOTIC ADVERSE EFFECTS 109
 
REFRACTORY SCHIZOPHRENIA AND CLOZAPINE 190
 
CLOZAPINE ADVERSE EFFECTS 212
 
Chapter 2 Bipolar disorder 247
 
Chapter 3 Depression and anxiety disorders 305
 
Chapter 4 Addictions and substance misuse 451
 
Part 2 Drug treatment of special patient groups 537
 
Chapter 5 Children and adolescents 539
 
Chapter 6 Prescribing in older people 601
 
Chapter 7 Pregnancy and breastfeeding 679
 
Chapter 8 Hepatic and renal impairment 723
 
Part 3 Prescribing in specialist conditions 755
 
Chapter 9 Drug treatment of other psychiatric conditions 757
 
Chapter 10 Drug treatment of psychiatric symptoms occurring in the context of other disorders 777
 
Part 4 Other aspects of psychotropic drug use 831
 
Chapter 11 Pharmacokinetics 833
 
Chapter 12 Other substances 865
 
Chapter 13 Psychotropic drugs in special conditions 875
 
Chapter 14 Miscellany 897
 
Index 943

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