Posted by TriedEveryMedication on April 27, 2011, at 20:34:03
In reply to Re: Viibryd/Vilazodone PI and efficacy... » mtdewcmu, posted by SLS on April 27, 2011, at 5:20:54
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> I like Stephen Stahl because he has the ability to make almost anything understandable.
>I don't trust stahl's book. What really goes on in the brain is far more complex than his cutesy diagrams show.
I think this amazon reviewer sums it up well:
=Psychopharmocology easy to do badly and very
=difficult to do well. As a second year psychiatry
=resident in 1999 I thought this book was awesome -
=psych meds made easy, with neat pictures, and
=cool names like "California Rocket Fuel."
=Now that I practice general psychiatry in the
=community I realize that this book is misleading
=and potentially dangerous. One, it oversimplifies
=the neurobiology of psychotropics - although that
=is not all that serious a problem. More importantly,
=it encourages approaching real treatment decisions
=by thinking about neurotransmitters, not the REAL
=source of any actual knowledge we have about how
=these meds work - clinical trials. The result is
=that I have seen many prescribers think about
=tweaking chemical or treating each symptom with
=a different med, frequently leading to expensive
= and often dangerous polypharmacy. For a
=cartoon-like overview for a non prescribing
=practitioner, this is an entertaining but inaccurate
=introduction to psychopharm; for someone who will
=actually use this to guide their prescribing -
=your patients deserve better.
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