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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 615.78 EAN: 9780521531887 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0521531888 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 380 Publication Date: August 29, 2005 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: August 29, 2005 Studio: Cambridge University Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Useless informationThere is a plethora of new, updated evidenced-based psychopharmacology available in published literatures and this text is the worst example of excessive greed by the authors. This book offers very little in term of "evidenced-based" psychopharmacology other than a collection of cited studies for each class of psychotropics. Stahl, Stein and the others most likely paid their lab assistants to collect all the psychopharm studies in the past 2 decades and put all of this together in a book. The materials ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent Review!!Trust me, You need this book before you go for your oral boards!! These days most younger examiners are testing newly trained professionals in Evidence based psychopharm!!! This is the book to flip thru' to be abreast of all EBM psychopharm!! I thoroughly recommend this book for all residents and early career psychiatrists!! 
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