Publisher's Synopsis
From the Cafer's Psychopharmacology series, Mood Stabilizers and Antiepileptics is an essential resource for any prescriber of psychiatric medication. Filled with pictures, this book makes complex concepts easy to understand and provides tools for remembering more than you thought possible. To help you match trade names with generic names of medications, this book features mascots akin to the Xyzal "Wise Owl" and Myrbetriq Bladder characters. Each medication's mascot is incorporated into a visual-mnemonic framework designed for recollection of pharmacokinetic interactions. For instance, CYP2C19 substrates are represented as flowers with CYP2C19 inhibitors as watering cans to make the flowers grow. CYP1A2 substrates are trees to be chopped down by axes (CYP1A2 inducers). Lithium is a battery and anything that interferes with its renal excretion is depicted as a battery charger. This book includes a subset of 46 medication mascots from Cafer's Psychopharmacology, which contains 270. Medications chosen for this edition include lithium, FDA-approved medications for seizure disorders (encompassing all non-lithium mood stabilizers) and all available benzodiazepines and barbiturates (several of which are antiepileptics). Medication mascots included: Lamotrigine (Lamictal), valproate (Depakene, Depakote), carbamazepine (Tegretol), oxcarbazepine (Trileptal), gabapentin (Neurontin), pregabalin (Lyrica), topiramate (Topamax), levetiracetam (Keppra), phenytoin (Dilantin), zonisamide (Zonegran), lacosamide (Vimpat), ethosuximide (Zarontin), eslicarbazepine (Aptiom), rufinamide (Banzel), felbamate (Felbatol), brivaracetam (Briviact), tiagabine (Gabitril), perampanel (Fycompa), cenobamate (Xcopri), vigabatrin (Sabril), cannabidiol (CBD, Epidiolex), phenobarbital (Luminal), primidone (Mysoline), butabarbital (Butisol), mephobarbital (Mebaral), butalbital (Fioricet), secobarbital (Seconal), pentobarbital (Nembutal), amobarbital (Amytal), thiopental (Sodium Pentothal), alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), lorazepam (Ativan), diazepam (Valium), temazepam (Restoril), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), triazolam (Halcion), clorazepate (Tranxene), oxazepam (Serax), flurazepam (Dalmane), estazolam (Prosom), quazepam (Doral), clobazam (Onfi), midazolam (Versed), and flumazenil (Romazicon). There is also a monograph on Virtual Darkness Therapy for bipolar mania.
