Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice, Volume II Use of Polypharma
Despite the large number of psychotropic medications currently available, effective management of mental disorders continues to be a challenging task. Although monotherapy may be desirable, most patients require combinations of two or more psychotropic dr
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Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice Volume II Use of Polypharmacy in the “Real World”
Editor Michael S. Ritsner Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Sha’ar Menashe Mental Health Center Hadera, Haifa, Israel
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I dedicate this book to my dear grandchildren Ron, Miriam, Diana and Daniel Ritsner who are funny, smart, obstinate, and sometimes downright willful
About the Editor
Michael S. Ritsner, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Ritsner, MD, PhD is a physician and scientist who spent his career of over 35 years caring for patients and studying the nature and treatment of mental illness. Dr. Ritsner is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa), Israel. Dr. Ritsner graduated from the Khabarovsk State Medical University, and received his PhD in Psychiatry from the Siberian State Medical University in 1975 (Tomsk, Russia). After gaining clinical practice as a neurologist and clinical psychiatrist he joined the Sib
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