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Table of Contents
Chapters |
Chapter 1: Awakenings Revisited
Catatonic stupor-past and present. Dopamine, informed consent, neurotransmitters, Pellagra, schizophrenia. Sinemet and levodopa, high dose vitamins. Voyage of new discovery. (Priscilla, Jocelyn: patients; Madelaine, Jocelyn's mother), (Edward, Andrew: students); (boat analogy)
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Chapter 2: More is Better?
Medication toxicity. Epilepsy, EEGs, generic substitution, infrequent grand mal seizures, labels (disease), Dilantin, new anticonvulsants. (Harry: patient), (Andrew: student); (boat)
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Chapter 3: The Woman Who Predicts Earthquakes
Strange events. Ambulatory EEGs, cause and effect, labels (psychological), normality, resistant focal seizures. Lamictal. (Lucy: patient; Martin: Lucy's husband)
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Chapter 4: Defying the Norm
Epileptic psychosis. Hypoglycemia, levels of function, normal variation, targeted prescribing. Depakote. (Eileen)
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Chapter 5: Explosions in the Brain
Psychosis and diagnostic dilemmas. Atypical spells, Brain firing and atypical "schizophrenia", kindling and chindling, medication compliance, neuroleptic toleration, schizophrenia, temporal lobe disease. Antipsychotics, Clozaril, Trilafon, Risperdal, Tegretol. Voyage of new discovery. (Steven)
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Chapter 6: Tomorrow I Will Kill Myself
Suicidal hopelessness. Anger, atypical episodes, borderline, chronic fatigue, gun control, meaning, out of labeling use, religion and psychiatry, suicidal ideation. Tegretol. (Wendy)
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Chapter 7: Sugar and Spice
Drug interactions. Absorption, metabolism, distribution and elimination of medications; cigarettes, jet lag, panic, Parkinson's disease, receptors, serotonin. Sinemet, Theophylline, Vitamin B6, Lasix. (Victor); (bathtub analogy), (boat analogy)
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Chapter 8: And Everything Nice
Herbal remedies. Absorption. Herbs, Vehicles. Caffeine, Drug development and marketing, MAOIs, Drug regulation, Melatonin, St John's wort, Vitamins. (Ryan); (bathtub analogy)
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Chapter 9: But It Was Working
Recurrent depression. Agitated and retarded depressions, Alzheimer's and pseudodementia, history of antidepressants, ideal antidepressant, serotonin and norepinephrine. Effexor, Paxil, Serzone, SSRIs, Tricyclics. (Jim); (bathtub analogy), (computer analogy)
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Chapter 10: The Deep Dark Pit
Chronic refractory depression. Adjunctive antidepressant therapies-lithium, BuSpar, anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, thyroid, estrogen, ECT, Visken, antipsychotics-detailed pharmacological evaluation, hospitalization. Effexor, Codeine, Prozac, Serzone. (Katie); (bathtub analogy)
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Chapter 11: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back
Adolescent Depression. Loss of efficacy, meaning, prescription education. BuSpar, Zoloft. Voyage of new discovery. (Suzanne); (bathtub analogy)
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Chapter 12: Curing the Incurable
Tardive dyskinesia. Longitudinal history perspective, mechanisms of action, social history of psychosis and antipsychotics. Corgard, high dose buspirone. Voyage of new discovery. (Kim, Queenie); (bathtub analogy)
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Glossaries |
Brain: Anatomy and Simplified Functions |
344 |
Analogies: Boat-Pier and Bathtub |
345 |
Neuropsychiatric Drugs |
346 |
Generic to Brand Drugs |
348 |
Brand to Generic Name Drugs |
349 |
Neurotransmitter Effects |
350 |
Medical Abbreviations |
351 |
Medical Terms |
352 |
Index of Concepts |
358 |
Endnotes |
364 |
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