Book description
The first book devoted to a challenging disorder that affects
millions of people around the world. Essential reading for all
psychiatrists who manage these patients.
Professor Dr Kasper is Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the
Department of General Psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna,
Austria. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong,
China. He concentrates on the biological bases of mental disorders and
their possible treatment approaches. He has conducted studies in
psychopathological as well as clinical areas. Dr Kasper is a frequent
national and international speaker and is actively involved in research
programmes studying depression, anxiety, psychosis, and dementia,
authoring over 800 research reports and reviews. Dr Kasper serves on
the editorial boards of numerous learned journals, including European
Archives of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, European Psychiatry, and
European Neuropsychopharmacology. He is Co-editor in-chief of the
International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice.
Professor Montgomery was Professor of Psychiatry at Imperial College,
University of London until his retirement in 1996 when he became
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry. He has great breadth of experience in
the field of psychotropic medicine with seminal work in depression,
anxiety disorders, suicide prevention and schizophrenia. He has
published 26 books and more than 400 papers. Professor Montgomery is
editor of
International Clinical Psychopharmacology
and was editor of
European Neuropsychopharmacology
for 20 years. He also serves on the editorial board of numerous
scientific journals.
