Geriatric Psychiatry: Advances and Directions, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

This issue covers a broad selection of topics critical to psychiatrist and any physician who treats older patients. Topics include: Epidemiology, clinical evaluation, and treatment of dementing disorders, late-life psychosis; suicide in late life; depression in primary care; structural neuroimaging of geriatric depression; gene-environment interactions in geriatric depression; treatment of geriatric depression; etiological Theories of Late-Life depression; geriatric bipolar disorder; psychotherapies in geriatric depression; home-based care of the elderly with mental disorders; functional neuroimaging in geriatric depression; models of treatment engagement of geriatric persons with mental disorders; and mental health service delivery to the elderly.

Product details

• Authors: George S Alexopoulos, George S. Alexopoulos, Alexopoulos George S., Dimitri Kiosses, Kiosses Dimitri
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2011
• EAN: 9781455704996
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-0499-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 551 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Geriatric medicine