Book Review: Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Philosophy of clinical psychopharmacology.

The renewal of the philosophical debate in psychiatry is one exciting news of recent years. However, its use in psychopharmacology may be problematic, ranging from self-confinement into the realm of values (which leaves the evidence-based domain unchallenged) to complete rejection of scientific evidence. In this paper philosophy is conceived as a conceptual audit of clinical psychopharmacology....

Book Review: Clinical Research Design. 4th ed.

Although this is a comprehensive textbook on clinical research design, it takes the reader in a truly step by step manner in designing a clinical research. It starts with explaining what a clinical research is made of the “anatomy” and how it works the “physiology.” It then covers how to conceive a research question, writing research proposals and ends with explaining not commonly discussed sub...

Book Review Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology

This text, in both concept and execution, was an ambitious undertaking by its editors Peter S. Spencer and Herbert H. Schaumberg, who also serve as major contributors. To describe this work as over-ambitious would be to imply that it does not reach the rigorous goals it sets for itself. Happily, this reader can report that Experimental and Clin­ ical Neurotoxicology is, by and large, successful...

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