About the Editor
Preface
Contributors
Part I. Polypharmacy treatment strategies
1. Multiple medication use in psychiatry: How Rational Can It Be? Ahsan Khan and Sheldon Preskorn
2. Receptor binding targets for antipsychotic efficacy; Maureen M. Grainger, Rebecca Ahlbrand, Paul S. Horn, Neil M. Richtand
3. Drug interactions and polypharmacy; Jessica L. Gören, and Ashley Tewksbury
4. Preclinical and clinical investigation of antipsychotic polypharmacy: What is the evidence? Dimitrios Kontis, Eirini Theochari
5. Should high dose or very long-term antipsychotic monotherapy be considered before antipsychotic polypharmacy? Stephen M. Stahl and Debbi A. Morrissette
6. Multiple Medication Use of Neuropsychiatry in Forensic Psychiatry: Findings from the Central State Forensic Psychiatric Hospital of Saxony-Anhalt; Joachim G. Witzel
Part II. Augmentation strategies
7. Antipsychotic treatment within a naturalistic trial - how are we treating schizophrenia patients in the "real-world"? Rebecca Schennach, Michael Obermeier, Florian Seemüller, Daniela Krause, Richard Musil, Ilja Spellmann, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Michael Riedel
8. A multi-target drug treatment in schizophrenia using adjunctive agents with non-D2 mechanisms of action; Michael S Ritsner
9. Antidepressants in schizophrenia - a place for them? Viacheslav Terevnikov and Grigori Joffe
10. Stressful life events and anticonvulsant medication in psychiatric patients; Petr Bob
11. Multiple medication use in somatic symptom disorders: from augmentation to diminution strategies; Adrian P. Mundt
Appendix; Rena Kurs
Annotated bibliography on polypharmacy
List of Psychotropic Medications
Contents to Volume II
Contributors to Volume II
Index
