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Psychiatric Drugs in Children and Adolescents

Manfred Gerlach • Andreas Warnke Laurence Greenhill Editors

Psychiatric Drugs in Children and Adolescents Basic Pharmacology and Practical Applications

Editors Manfred Gerlach, PhD Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Laboratory for Clinical Neurobiology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring University of Würzburg Würzburg Germany

Andreas Warnke, MD Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy University of Würzburg Würzburg Germany

Laurence Greenhill, MD NYS Psychiatric Institute New York Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY USA

ISBN 978-3-7091-1500-8 ISBN 978-3-7091-1501-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1501-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York

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Preface

This comprehensive book combines the scientific bases of psychopharmacology and the methods of the application of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. It is focused on up-todate knowledge necessary for state-of-the-art practice in pediatric psychopharmacology. This volume that uses numerous tables, s