Adolescent Medicine. / I, : Pharmacotherapeutics in General, Mental and Sexual Health / / ed. by Donald E. Greydanus, Dilip R. Patel, Hatim A. Omar, Cynthia Feucht, Joav Merrick.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Calles, Joseph L.; Feucht, Cynthia.; Greydanus, Donald E.; Hawver, Elizabeth K.; Huff, Marlene B.; Kaplan, Gabriel.; Lentzsch-Parcells, Carolyn M.; MacTaggart, Patricia.; McKanna, Trudy.; Merrick, Joav.; Nazeer, Ahsan.; Omar, Hatim A.; Patel, Dilip R.; Pratt, Helen.; Rodarmer, Ryan.; Rowlett, John D.; Seyler, Jane.; Shebrain, Saad.; Simmons, Michael.; Sorrel, Shawn.; Stockburger, Stephanie.; Toriello, Helga V.; Wegge, Jacqueline.
• MitwirkendeR: Calles, Joseph L.,; Feucht, Cynthia L.,; Greydanus, Donald E.,; Hawver, Elizabeth K.,; Huff, Marlene,; Kaplan, Gabriel,; Lentzsch-Parcells, Carolyn M.,; MacTaggart, Patricia,; McKanna, Trudy,; Merrick, Joav,; Nazeer, Ahsan,; Omar, Hatim A.,; Patel, Dilip R.,; Pratt, Helen D.,; Rodarmer, Ryan,; Rowlett, John D.,; Seyler, Jane,; Shebrain, Saad,; Simmons, Michael T.,; Sorrel, Shawn,; Stockburger, Stephanie,; Toriello, Helga V.,; Wegge, Jacqueline,
• HerausgeberIn: Feucht, Cynthia,; Greydanus, Donald E.,; Merrick, Joav,; Omar, Hatim A.,; Patel, Dilip R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Health, Medicine and Human Development ; I
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

Primary care clinicians are called on to care for adolescents in a time with increasing pharmacologic agents that are available in the management of these patients. The emphasis in this book is on the current pharmacologic treatment of common medical disorders in adolescents. Selected topics of prac...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction – Adolescent medicine: Pharmacotherapeutics in general, mental, and sexual health
• 2. Overview on adolescence
• 3. Concepts of health care in adolescents in the twenty-first century
• 4. Principles of pharmacology
• 5. Basic concepts of neurotransmission
• 6. Genetics and adolescent medicine
• 7. Concepts of emergency care
• 8. Concepts of surgical disorders in adolescents
• 9. Concepts of psychotherapy in adolescents
• Mental Health
• 10. Substance abuse disorders
• 11. Pharmacotherapy of adolescent attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder
• 12. Disorders of disruption, violence, and cognitive abilities
• 13. Mood disorders
• 14. Anxiety disorders
• 15. Schizophrenia
• Sexual and Gynecologic Health
• 16. The adolescent breast
• 17. Menstrual disorders in the adolescent female
• 18. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
• 19. Contraception in adolescents
• 20. Adolescent pregnancy
• Acknowledgments
• 21. About the editors
• 22. About the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University/ Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
• 23. About the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
• 24. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
• Index