Profiling psychotropic discharge medication from a children’s psychiatric ward
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Psychotropic medication, psychiatric disorders, and higher brain functions
Conventional psychiatric diagnosis is founded on symptom description; this then governs the choice of psychotropic medication. This purely descriptive approach resembles a description of diphtheria from the premicrobiology era. Based on current advances in basic and clinical neuroscience, we propose inserting an intermediate level of analysis between psychiatric symptoms and pharmacologic modes...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2210-7703,2210-7711
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-015-0116-1