$239.99
Taxes may apply at checkout.
Understanding Depression
Contemporary Issues and Dilemmas
Introduction
This book focuses on contemporary issues and dilemmas in relation to depression. The aim of the book is to equip readers with an up-to-date understanding of the clinical and neurobiological underpinning of depression, the clinical manifestations, and the development of more effective treatments.
Section 1: Conceptual and Diagnostic Issues
The first section discusses conceptual and diagnostic issues in major depression, highlighting current criticism and future perspective on DSM-5, biological classification, neural circuit taxonomy.
Section 2: Symptomatic and Clinical Issues
The second section considers symptomatic and clinical issues in major depression, including anhedonia, cognition, pain, suicide, obesity, and gender difference.
Section 3: Etiological and Neurobiological Issues
The third examines important etiological and neurobiological issues, including epigenetics, genetics, HPA axis, neuroimaging, and gut-brain axis.
Section 4: Therapeutic Issues
A concluding section is devoted to current therapeutic issues in major depression, focusing on new antidepressants, psychedelics, neurostimulation, digital therapy, and personalized integrative treatment.
Audience
Understanding Depression is an indispensable resource for psychiatrists, neurologists, pharmacologists, medical researchers, and graduate students engaged in affective neuroscience and clinical psychiatry.
