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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.852706
EAN num: 9780060987077
ISBN number: 0060987073
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: November 06, 1996
Publishing house: Collins Living
Release Date: September 27, 1996
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Do you find that you don't handle stress well and are frequently irritable?
Did you know the much-publicized low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet of recent years may actually be making you depressed and overweight?
And what are the hidden dangers of sleep loss and irregular schedules?
In Beyond Prozac, Dr. Michael Norden, a psychiatrist and pioneer in developing new applications of Prozac, explains how the toll of modern-day life has undermined our health and led to a national epidemic of depression, anxiety and weight problems. But there is hope. Based on seven years of groundbreaking research and clinical work, Beyond Prozac offers solutions to these chronic health problems that go beyond simply prescribing Prozac from incredibly effective alternative treatments such as light therapy, regulation of sleeping habits, and specialized diets to the subsequent generation of safer and more effective depression medications. A decisive voice in the debate about depression, Beyond Prozac is a provocative and enduring classic in the modern literature about mental health.
Now revised and expanded to include the latest new information and research, Beyond Prozac gives you the inside scoop on: - Powerful new antidepressants: Serzone, Wellbutrin and Remeron
- The surprising relationship between weather, brain chemistry and behavior
- New studies hinting that low serotonin is the norm, not the exception, and what this means for those seeking treatment
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Picked this up from the library and was quite surprised at the amount of information it contains. On very first appearance, it looked a little dated so I wondered how accurate it would be. (Published in '95)I found a lot of good information on depression, seratonin and different medications used to treat. Some medications that I thought were fairly new are covered here. Interesting studies are shared on what works best in different situations. I came away from this with a better understanding of depression and the medications used to treat it.
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This is one the best books I've read on the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. It is relatively easy and interesting to read, yet is extremely informative and research-based. It is nice to see a book that discusses the integration of traditional and natural treatments so comprehensively.
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I always admire an M.D. who goes outside of his cloistered and conservative realm and researches EVERYTHING that may cause depression. That's not medicine, that's SCIENCE, folks! But like some of the other reviewers, I agree with them that this book is much less about Prozac itself that about other things, some more proven than others. As a biologist I enjoyed reading it simply for the sake of science itself. It probably will not help a desperately depressed patient very much. However, if you read The Failures of American Medicine, available here at Amazon.com, you may be able to get much more hands-on information for dealing with depression.
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Beyond Prozac was very first published in 1995. In today's fast-moving world of psychopharmacology, one might think that would make Beyond Prozac completely outdated. Yet, in reading Norden's book, I did find some information related to depression that was new and interesting to me. For example, his discusion of the role of prostaglandins, essential fats, positive ions, and heat in creating depression/low serotonin levels I found informative. Norden also gave much interesting information on Seasonal Affective Disorder and light therapy, which I wasn't very familiar with (being a San Diegan) and is one of his specialties (being a Seattle-ite). That being said, I found a great deal of Beyond Prozac too general and not in depth enough. Most chapters are quite short (10 pages) and give an encyclopedic-like explanation of the various "Natural Prozacs," to use Norden's words. This encyclopedia-like approach was not really satisfying to me. The chapter on diet and depression is a good example of this general, encyclopedia approach: Norden discusses the benefits of a "Zone"-like diet (a/la Barry Sears) but only has a very brief three page list of randomly chosen foods to help you follow this diet. I guess you need to buy one of Barry Sears' Zone books if you want to follow such a diet. Likewise, in the antidepressant medication section, while Norden does cover all the SSRIs, SRIs, MAO inhibitors, and tricyclics, he gives most (except for Prozac) a page discusion at best. I felt that much of this information could have been gotten from reading the drug companies' description of the drug itself, I'm sorry to say. I would have liked to see Norden give a more critical analysis of each drug and its side effects, especially the newer SSRIs. And Norden doesn't really delve into many of the more effective alternative supplements, such as St. John's wort or SAM-e (which is understandable since Beyond Prozac was published in 1995, before these supplements flooded the US market). He does discuss tryptophan and 5-HTP though, but only briefly. All in all, as someone who has experimented a bit with antidepressant treatments for the past few years, I found this book to be somewhat, but not very informative. I guess it's a good introduction to psychopharmacological ways of dealing with depression if you haven't read anything else. But Beyond Prozac didn't really tell me much I hadn't heard before.
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Norden's is one of the most accessible surveys of the many drugs available for the treatment of depression. If it has a shortcoming, it's Norden's tendency to find just about EVERYTHING, from the earliest MAO inhibitors and tricyclics to the SSRI drugs of the nineties to be effective. The reader might appreciate more discrimination as well as healthy skepticism on the author's part. Also, the book is now dated in this ever changing field, as popular drugs like Celexa and Remeron appeared too recently to be covered.
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