TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Richard C.W. AU - Beresford,Thomas P. TI - Handbook of psychiatric diagnostic procedures SN - 0893352098 (v. 1) AV - RC469 .H367 1984 U1 - 616.89/075 19 PY - 1984///-c1985 CY - New York PB - SP Medical & Scientific Books KW - Mental illness KW - Diagnosis KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Diagnosis, Laboratory KW - Mental Disorders KW - diagnosis KW - Laboratory Techniques and Procedures KW - drug therapy KW - Maladies mentales KW - Diagnostic KW - Guides, manuels, etc KW - Diagnostics biologiques N1 - Includes bibliographies and indexes; v. 1. Dexamethasone suppression test -- Comprehensive thyroid evaluation in psychiatric patients -- CNS amine metabolites -- Laboratory procedures related to the metals -- Plasma concentration monitoring of antipsychotic and tricyclic antidepressant treatment -- Lithium monitoring -- Blood level determinations of commonly prescribed medical drugs -- Blood level monitoring of antiepileptic drugs -- Stimulant challenge tests -- Laboratory evaluation of newly admitted psychiatric patients -- Psychiatric diagnostic procedures in the emergency department; v. 2. Clinical electroencephalography as an assessment method in psychiatric practice -- Sleep electroencephalograpy -- Identification of melancholia using EEG studies of sleep -- Tests of psychomotor function -- Evoked potentials -- Special electrophysiological tests -- The role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) -- The alcoholic patient -- The patient with anorexia nervosa or bulimia -- The provisional diagnosis of dementia -- The comprehensive evaluation of cocaine and opiate abusers -- Evaluation of the geriatric patient -- Diagnostic approaches to sexuality in the medically ill -- Laboratory assessment of the paraphilias and their treatment with antiandrogenic medication -- The endorphins -- Computerized psychiatric practice -- Positron emission transaxial tomography UR - http://www.archive.org/details/handbookofpsychi02hall UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2851116M ER -