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

George S. Alexopoulos (Author), Dimitri Kiosses (Author)

9781455704996, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 6 June 2011

256 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg

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.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]