Work

New Drugs in Psychiatry

Year: 2000

Type: review

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rapid expansion of new psychotropic agents and psychotropic applications of primarily nonpsychiatric medications in nearly all domains of psychopathology. Increasingly, patients in emergency departments may be taking newer-generation antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood-stabilizing drugs, and individuals with treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders are often prescribed complex, polypharmaceutical regimens. Current information on the use of psychiatric medications that have entered widespread use in the past 5 to 10 years is reviewed, with focus on indications and dosing, comparisons with older medications, management of patients with overdoses and toxicity states, and the medical and psychiatric effects of newer drugs on patients who may present to emergency departments.

Source: Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

DOI: 10.1016/s0733-8627(05)70119-x

Author: Joseph F. Goldberg

Institutions: Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Treatment of Major Depression

Subfield: Pharmacology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,750