Antiepileptic Drugs to Treat Psychiatric Disorders (Medical Psychiatry Series)

✍ Scribed by L. McElroy Susan, Paul E. Keck Jr., Robert M. Post

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Medical Psychiatry Series 39
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) now have regulatory indications for treating bipolar disorder. There is growing evidence that AEDs in general have a variety of useful psychotropic effects. This book is the first comprehensive, clinically oriented, reference on the use of AEDs to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders such as mood, psychotic, anxiety, substance use, eating, and personality disorders. Written by the leading clinical experts, Antiepileptic Drugs to Treat Psychiatric Disorders: is organized by psychiatric disorder for easier information gathering, and enables the physician to use the text as a stand alone reference is the first comprehensive reference book clinically orientated to the use of AEDs to treat psychiatric disorders—other books have focused on drug mechanisms and drug interactions

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
1 Mechanisms of Action of Antiepileptic Drugs......Page 15
2 Antiepileptics in the Treatment of Epilepsy......Page 31
3 Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatmentof Neuropathic Pain......Page 47
4 The Antiepileptic Drugs and Migraine Prevention......Page 101
5 Antiepileptic Medications in the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury......Page 117
6 Antiepileptic Drugs in Intellectual Disability and/or Autism......Page 129
7 Treatment of Acute Manic and Mixed Episodes......Page 143
8 The Role of Antiepileptic Drugs in Long-TermTreatment of Bipolar Disorder......Page 153
9 Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatmentof Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder and Bipolar Depression......Page 169
10 Role of Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder......Page 191
11 Antiepileptics in the Treatment of Schizophrenia......Page 201
12 Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatmentof Anxiety Disorders: Role in Therapy......Page 221
13 Antiepileptics in the Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Relapse Prevention......Page 265
14 Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders......Page 277
15 Antiepileptics as Potential Aids to Smoking Cessation......Page 285
16 Antiepileptic Drugs in Obesity, Psychotropic-Associated Weight Gain, and Eating Disorders......Page 297
17 Antiepileptic Drugs in the Treatment of Impulsivity and Aggression and Impulse Control and Cluster B Personality Disorders......Page 325
18 Antiepileptic Drugs and Borderline Personality Disorder......Page 357
19 Antiepileptics in the Treatment of Sleep Disorders......Page 363
20 Use of Antiepileptics in Fibromyalgia......Page 377
21 Psychotrophic Mechanisms of Actionof Antiepileptic Drugs in Mood Disorder......Page 393
Abbreviations......Page 415
Index......Page 423
Back Cover......Page 435