Article Text
Book review
Pediatric psychopharmacology: principles & practice
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Edited by Andrés Martin, Lawrence Scahill, Dennis S Charney and James F Leckman. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002, £99.50, pp 755. ISBN 0-19-514173-3
This is a weighty text—at nearly 800 pages and nearly 5½12 lbs in the hardback edition. Far more than just a textbook of psychopharmacology, this is an introduction to and update on the biological basis of pediatric psychopharmacology as well as its current practice. Organised into four sections, the first covers neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and genetics, including a well written primer on molecular genetics for those child and adolescent psychiatrists (and there are probably many) who have lost contact with their biomedical roots. It was, however, disappointing to see …