Drug Interactions Casebook: The Cytochrome P450 System and Beyond

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Summary: Modern Psychiatry
Review: You cannot call yourself a Psychopharmacologist, or even a modern Psychiatrist if you are not practicing with an understanding of P450 and how this is affecting your patient. Ever wondered why your patient is having unexpected reactions to the addition or subtraction of medications, or perhaps why the antidepressant you selected isn't working or why the mood stabilizer levels aren't adding up? Quite simply the liver makes enzymes that are having an effect on your medications, particularly in combinations of medications. You need to know who is doing what to whom and why and this book will explain that. This book is the result of an accumulation of much tedious scientific data transformed by this well-respected psychiatrist into pleasing vingnettes which you can translate into practice.