Melancholia the diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of depressive illness
This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood, associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear diagnosis, prognosis, and range of management strategies, differentiated from other similar psychiatric, neurological, and ge...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798065006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Melancholia: a conceptual history
- Melancholia defined
- Defining melancholia by psychopathology
- Defining melancholia: laboratory tests
- Examination for melancholia
- The differential diagnosis of melancholia
- Suicide in melancholia
- Electroconvulsive therapy for melancholia
- Achieving effective ECT
- The validity of the pharmacotherapy literature in melancholia
- Basic pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients
- Pharmacotherapy for melancholic patients in complicating circumstances
- Proposed treatments for melancholia
- The pathophysiology of melancholia
- Future directions.
