Roger McIntyre, Jay Nathanson

Severe Depression

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this concise pocketbook covers the clinical features and definition of severe major depressive disorder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 99mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 118g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570249
• ISBN-10: 0199570248
• Artikelnr.: 33134899

Autorenporträt

Dr. Roger McIntyre is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto and Head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. Dr. McIntyre is involved in multiple research endeavours which primarily aim to characterize the association between mood disorders and medical comorbidity. This research involves elucidating metabolic adverse events associated with the use of psychotropic medications, the impact of medical comorbidity on the course of mood disorders, and the effect of glucose homeostasis on neurocognition. He has received several teaching awards from the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry and was awarded the joint Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) / Council of Psychiatric Continuing Education 2000-2001 Award for the Most Outstanding Continuing Education Activity in Psychiatry in Canada. Dr. Jay Nathanson joined the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacolgy Unit at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, in September 2008. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario Medical School and completed his residency in psychiatry and fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is board certified in both Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Nathanson received a Masters Degree in Public Health from the Boston University School of Public Health, where he concentrated in health law and medical ethics. Following his training, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nathanson has worked as an attending psychiatrist on an in-patient mental health unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. More recently, he worked as a general consultation-liaison psychiatrist.