Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice, Volume II

Part I. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy

1. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Schizophrenia: ‘Secret Sauce or Wild Abandon?’
Peter F. Buckley

2. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in USA
Anand K. Pandurangi, John T. Vernon

3. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Czech Republic and in Ukraine
Viktor P. Samokhvalov, Oksana E. Samokhvalova, Viktoria A. Verbenko, Georgij N. Verbenko

4. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Residential Facilities in Italy: The Gap Between Recommendations and Real World Practice
Lucio Ghio, Werner Natta, Simona Gotelli, Luigi Ferrannini

5. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy and Associated Phenomena in Patients with Schizophrenia: Rational or Irrational?
Yong K. H. Michael, Norman Sartorius, Kang Sim

6. Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Schizophrenia. How to Counteract This Common Practice?
Takefumi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Uchida, Koichiro Watanabe, Masaru Mimura

7. Clozapine Combinations in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Patients
Vladimir Lerner, Chanoch Miodownik

8. Metabolic Syndrome and Antipsychotic Polypharmacy
Fuminari Misawa, Fujii Yasuo, Yasuyuki Okumura, Hiroto Ito

Part II. Polypharmacy for Other Psychiatric Conditions

9. Evidence Based Combination Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
Stamatia Magiria, Melina Siamouli, Xenia Gonda, Apostolos Iacovides, Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis

10. Antidepressant Combination Strategies for Major Depressive Disorder
André F. Carvalho, Danielle S. Macêdo, Thomas N. Hyphantis, Roger S. McIntyre

11. Herbal Remedies and Nutraceuticals as Augmentation or Adjunct for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Evidence for Benefit and Risk
Arun V. Ravindran, Tricia L. Silva

12. Obsessive-Compulsive Syndromes in Schizophrenia: A Case for Polypharmacy?
Frederike Schirmbeck, Mathias Zink

13. Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use Among Elders with Dementia
Jan Luzny

14. The Role of Polypharmacy in Bipolar Disorder Treatment Guidelines
Heinz Grunze

Keywords: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Psychiatry, Pharmacy, Clinical Psychology, Medical Education, Psychopharmacology