Prescriber's Guide: Antipsychotics

This spin-off from Stephen M. Stahl's new, completely revised, and fully updated sixth edition of the Prescriber's Guide covers the most important drugs in use today for treating patients suffering from psychotic illness. Now established as the indispensable formulary in psychopharmacology, easy to navigate and easy to use, the Prescriber's Guide combines evidence-based information with clinically informed guidance to support clinicians in making the most effective prescribing decisions for the good of their patients. Incorporating information on the newest indications, new formulations, new recommendations and new safety data, this edition continues to provide the essential practical support required by anyone prescribing in the field of mental health.

    Provides the most complete and up-to-date summary of the practical use of antipsychotics
    This book is presented in a templated format, fully indexed and cross-referenced for ease of navigation
    Icons appear next to key categories for each drug so that the prescriber can go easily and instantly to the information needed
    Written with the authority of evidence and the guidance of clinical wisdom

Table of Contents

Introduction
List of icons
1. Amisulpride
2. Aripiprazole
3. Asenapine
4. Blonanserin
5. Brexpiprazole
6. Cariprazine
7. Chlorpromazine
8. Clozapine
9. Cyamemazine
10. Flupenthixol
11. Fluphenazine
12. Haloperidol
13. Iloperidone
14. Loxapine
15. Lurasidone
16. Mesoridazine
17. Molindone
18. Olanzapine
19. Paliperidone
20. Perospirone
21. Perphenazine
22. Pimavanserin
23. Pimozide
24. Pipothiazine
25. Quetiapine
26. Risperidone
27. Sertindole
28. Sulpiride
29. Thioridazine
30. Thiothixene
31. Trifluoperazine
32. Ziprasidone
33. Zotepine
34. Zuclopenthixol
Index by drug name
Index by use
Abbreviations.

Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. He has conducted various research projects awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Veterans Affairs, and the pharmaceutical industry. Author of more than 500 articles and chapters, Dr Stahl is also the author of the bestseller Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (Cambridge, 2013).