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Summary: Excellent text
Review: As an undergraduate in psychology, I was looking for a book that explained psychopharmacology that was both easy to understand but technical enough to be useful. After several failures, I came across this book and bought it. It is the best I have seen. The text thoroughly explains the different classes of drugs and how each works. The artwork that goes along with the text makes the concepts, such as active reuptake of the neurotransmitters, very easy to understand. I highly recommend this book for students in psychology and anyone who has a basic knowledge of the neuro-chemical transmission process. Also, I would encourage faculty in undergraduate psychology departments to consider this book for use as a textbook in psychopharmacology classes.
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Summary: Great Book. . .Great Doctor!
Review: I found the book to be very helpful and extremely informative. Dr. Stahl's writing style is concise and interesting.He doesn't try to blow us"non-med students" out of the water with big words. I attended University of California at San Diego where he does much of his research and I have had a chance to meet with him. He is not only a great author, but a kind, caring, creative and intelligent doctor(believe it or not, he also has a great sense of humor). I hope you all enjoy this book!
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Summary: Great Book. . .Great Doctor!
Review: I found the book to be very helpful and extremely informative. Dr. Stahl's writing style is concise and interesting.He doesn't try to blow us"non-med students" out of the water with big words. I attended University of California at San Diego where he does much of his research and I have had a chance to meet with him. He is not only a great author, but a kind, caring, creative and intelligent doctor(believe it or not, he also has a great sense of humor). I hope you all enjoy this book!
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Summary: Excellent but reader beware
Review: People love this book because of it's pretty diagrams and the way it presents receptor mechanisms with clarity and certainty. This is very good for the beginner, but those who read primary sources will probably note at least two shortcomings. Firstly the effects of stimulating different receptors and the interactions between them are more complex and apparently contradictory than this book implies. Secondly the author does not comprehensively review clinical trials which again give results that are not as unequivocal as might be predicted from the models put forward. In summary this book is a great achievement but tends to downplay the uncertainties in the field.
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Summary: Hail Stahl!
Review: Since i laid my eyes on this book, I have become a huge fan of Dr Stephen Stahl. Although I havent personally met him (yet)I admire his work immensly. I am eagerly awaiting the new edition to this book. I admire his writing skills and the ability to make Psychopharm an otherwise tough science so easy to understand and fun to to read. I only hope I can some day write like you do Dr Stahl. Thanks, Jay Batra
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Summary: Psychopharmacology written in concrete English
Review: Stephen Stahl does a fine job of explaining the details of modern psychopharmacology. But he can do it in such a way as to not bore you six feet into the ground. Stahl goes into much detail in explaining all the many specifics concerning the many drugs used in psychiatry. He covers most of the combos and "augmenting" approaches that can be taken in modern psychopharmacology. Stahl also covers the neglected area within psychiatry known as "treatment resistant depression" or mood disorders which do not adequately respond to the usual Prozac.Id recommend this book to anyone diagnosed with a severe mental illness and who wants to learn more about the medications they take. Id also recommend this book to non medical mental health professionals such as psychologists, social workers, counselors, etc. For most psychiatrists this book would probably be redundant (Id hope at least). All of Stahls psychopharmacology books are good books BTW.
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Summary: A very simple overview of psychopharmacology
Review: This book is a very simple overview to the world of psychopharmacology. It gives very simple illustrations about drug actions using cartoon figures. Complex chemical structures of psychotropic drugs and their interactions with the biological systems were excluded. It also excluded explainations about complex brain structures and functions as well as the drugs' pharmacologies. Nevertheless, this book gives an interesting overview about psychotropic drugs and their actions to different kinds of neurons.
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Summary: Excellent Psychopharmacology Primer and Reference
Review: This is an excellent book for MOST. Whether you are an intern/resident , as I am, in primary care, or in private practice this book is great for not only learning the material for the first time or just refreshing the material while in practice. His recommendation to read the book the first time by just looking at the pictures and reading the captions with them is an excellent start for any physician. Those needing more advanced learning can read the text as well a second time. And for those still wanting to go a step further, stephen stahl has talks around the country to attend; at these he goes into even more detail.
This is not for an advanced researcher who has been researching/practicing for many years. But for the other 80-90% of us it is a great book.
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Summary: Too Basic
Review: Very good illustration. The contents is too basic for a good study. May be helpful for junior medical students. About 5-10% of the contents did give me some clearification of knowledge. In general, I found the book boring. Another comment is that the book does not mention the subtypes of MAO and the role of MAO-A in inhibiting absorption of tyramine. This is more important than the work at synaps which clinically does not deserve the emphasis the book gives.
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Summary: Concise, to the point, state of the art psychopharmacology.
Review: Wonderful visuals, CD ROM helps visualize complex receptor interactions. Mechanisms of drugs and of psychiatric illness summarized in a very easy and fun learning experience. Worth every penny.
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