Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation

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*Updated version as of 12/10/12!
New Features:
+ Interactive links between chapter review questions and answers and explanations
+ Links to external, high resolution PDF versions of graphs/charts

Fixes:
+ Crash issues for Kindle Fire
+ Resolved font related issues
+ Improved embedding of graphs/charts


From Massachusetts General Hospital — one of the world’s leading centers for psychiatry education, research, and treatment — comes this unrivaled, complete overview of the field of psychiatry. This remarkable text is designed as a study aid for excelling on shelf exams, board certification and re-certification exams. The Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Update & Board, 3rd edition can be used as study guide or as a clinical refresher. It combines review material with a Q&A format (geared to each chapter) — and gives you the latest information in the field, using the most recent DSM-IV terminology.

With in-depth coverage that ranges from neuroanatomy and psychopathology to therapeutics, to group therapy and imaging, the book is designed to meet the curriculum requirements of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology. It considers the full spectrum of both psychiatric and neurological disorders including:
Neuromuscular disease - Seizures - Stroke and TIA - Dementia - Sleep Disorders - Mental Retardation - Eating Disorders - Disturbances of Mood and Anxiety - Behavioral Disturbances - Neuropsychiatric Disturbances - And many others

This unique skill-and-knowledge-building tool gives you a thorough look a topics of special interest, such as medico-legal issues in medical practice, the violent patient, HIV disease, psychosexual disorders, suicide, substance use and abuse, mood/mental disorders and the reproductive cycle, child and geriatric psychiatry, and end-of-life care. What’s more, it also provides step-by-step guidelines for the administration of psychopharmacologic drugs and the management of their reactions.

NEW IN THIS EDITION
- Valuable strategies for the new written boards format
- Additional self-test questions and answers to prepare for shelf exams, for certification, and for re-certification
- New psychopharmacological advances
- Additional coverage of the pediatric patient

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