Theodore A. Stern MD

For generations of practitioners, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been and is the "gold standard" guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions.

Covers the psychological impact of chronic medical problems and life-threatening diseases, somatic symptom disorders, organ donors and recipients, pain, substance abuse, and polypharmacy, including a thorough review of drug actions and interactions, metabolism, and elimination. Features DSM-5 updates throughout, as well as case studies in every chapter.Contains practical tips on how to implement the most current and effective pharmacological therapies as well as cognitive-behavioral approaches. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos (including video updates), glossary, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

The Massachusetts General Hospital is widely regarded as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 3rd Edition, offers practical, informative, and hands-on advice from the staff of the esteemed MGH Department of Psychiatry, helping you put today’s best practices to work for your patients. This authoritative reference covers a wide variety of clinical syndromes and settings, aided by superb graphics throughout. In one convenient volume, you’ll have easy access to the answers you need to face and overcome any clinical challenge.

Uses a reader-friendly and highly templated format with abundant boxed summaries, bulleted points, case histories, algorithms, references, and suggested readings.Contains new chapters on the Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac, Renal, Pulmonary, and Gastrointestinal Disease; COVID-19 Infection; Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment; Care of LGBTQ Patients; and Mindfulness and Resilience.Covers key areas, such as Substance Use Disorders; Mood, Anxiety, and Psychotic Disorders; Emergency Psychiatry; Functional Neuroanatomy and the Neurologic Examination; Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment; Military Psychiatry; Psychiatric Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Injury; Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry; End of Life Care; and Approaches to Collaborative Care and Primary Care Psychiatry.Features key points for every chapter, updated DSM-5 criteria, and enhanced content on collaborative care and behavioral medicine, ensuring that your knowledge is thorough and up to date.Corresponds to the companion review volume, Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-0-443-11983-5).An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

Learning About Psychopharmacology is for practitioners of all medical disciplines. Written by leading psychiatrists, Learning About Psychopharmacology offers a layered approach to learning; it builds knowledge in bite-sized bits, sentence by sentence. It employs an iterative process that makes learning possible, straightforward, and seemingly simple. This book provides nine readable and trustworthy chapters, each covering different classes of psychotropics. Both a pre-test and post-test are included so that you can assess how much you have learned by completing this programmed text. Enjoy the process.

This volume will serve as an excellent resource to help the reader learn about psychiatric conditions, as well as their evaluation and treatment. It was created for those who also want to prepare for standardized examinations (e.g., “shelf” exams and board exams) and gain experience in test-taking. The questions have been divided into six sections; each has 100 questions and answers (to allow for manageable study sessions).

Facing Osteoporosis is for anyone whose life is affected by this diagnosis. Written by leading health care providers in their fields, Facing Osteoporosis combines top-tier medical information and compassionate counsel on the management of osteoporosis, with a caring and sensible approach to the medical and physical aspects of living with osteoporosis and its complications. This book provides easily readable and trustworthy information; it is divided into eight chapters that ask and answer pertinent questions about osteoporosis and its medical and psychiatric/psychological care.

A glossary of terms provides important background information to readers (e.g., about nutrition, diet, exercise, risk-reduction); online resources and references are also offered; words italicized in the text are defined in the glossary. Each of the chapters is accompanied by selected references, internet resources, illustrations, and photographs.

Facing Cystic Fibrosis is for anyone whose life is affected by this diagnosis. Written by leading health care providers in their fields and members of the cystic fibrosis community, Facing Cystic Fibrosis combines top-tier medical information and compassionate counsel on the management of cystic fibrosis, with a caring and sensible approach to the physical and emotional aspects of living with cystic fibrosis and its complications.

This book provides easily readable and trustworthy information; it is divided into nineteen chapters that ask and answer pertinent questions about cystic fibrosis and its medical and psychiatric/psychological care. A glossary of terms provides important background information to readers (e.g., about nutrition, diet, exercise, risk-reduction); online resources and references are also offered; words italicized in the text are defined in the glossary. Each of the chapters is accompanied by selected references, internet resources, illustrations, and photographs.

Prepare for success on your board and shelf exams with the all-new Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams. Based on the popular and authoritative Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, this practical review tool contains 600 questions with annotated answers, offered both in print and online. You’ll have convenient, flexible access to hundreds of relevant, carefully reviewed questions from MGH―the name trusted by psychiatry residents and practicing clinicians as a leader in psychiatry information and reference.

Contains 600 multiple-choice questions and annotated answers that test your knowledge of every aspect of psychiatry, offering highly effective preparation for your primary certification exams. Divides questions into 94 sections that match the parent text, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition. Helps you gain a better understanding of exam presentation and format as you study relevant content that is fully up to date with DSM-5. Allows you to study both in print and online, or review offline with the eBook download.Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Learning about sleep and sleep disorders is important for clinicians in all specialties.To assess your knowledge about this subject, a pre-test is provided.After taking this pre-test, move directly to the text (without checking the answerkey at the end of the book).Next, read the programmed text. It provides you with an opportunity for layeredlearning, with information offered in bite-sized bits. After each section, fill in the missingwords (indicated by blanks) with the correct answer; this enables you to buildknowledge in small steps. You will learn better if you do not look at the answers beforeyou fill in the missing words.

Therefore, cover up the answer adjacent to each sectionusing the supplied bookmark (found at the back of this book), until you have filled inthe missing words.This format will make completing this workbook seem simplistic; nevertheless,moving through this text step-by-step will help you to develop working knowledgeabout the assessment and management of sleep complaints and sleep disorders.Follow the instructions; skipping sections will interfere with the learning process.You can complete the tests and read the text in one sitting.After completing the entire text, take the post-reading test. This will help youassess how much you have learned from this exercise.Then, score your pre-test and post-reading test to determine your raw score andthe percentage of your correct responses.Enjoy the painless process.

Offering user-friendly, authoritative guidance on cutting-edge psychopharmacologic and somatic treatments for psychiatric and neurologic conditions, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychopharmacology and Neurotherapeutics, 2nd Edition, helps you put today's best approaches to work for your patients. Composed of topical chapters primarily from the third edition of Stern et al.

’s Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, this fully revised resource focuses on current psychotropic treatments, electroconvulsive therapy, and neurotherapeutics, making it an ideal quick reference for psychiatrists, psychologists, internists, and nurse practitioners.Brings you up-to-date information on key topics in the field, including the application of anticonvulsants, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and psychostimulants; drug–drug interactions; side effects; treatment adherence; and more.Includes detailed coverage of antidepressants, antipsychotics, and antianxiety medications, as well as advances in caring for patients with treatment-resistant depression and new legal considerations when prescribing psychotropics.Covers recent progress on the use of neurotherapeutic interventions, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagal nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation.Contains a new chapter on the pharmacotherapy of movement disorders (derived from Stern et al.’s MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, 8th Edition).Features a user-friendly, highly templated format with abundant boxed summaries, bulleted points, case histories, algorithms, updated references, and suggested readings.Offers updated DSM-5-TR criteria alongside peerless, hands-on advice from members of the esteemed MGH Department of Psychiatry.An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.