Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. The Psychiatric Interview of Older Adults
Chapter 2. Psychopharmacology
Chapter 3. Delirium
Chapter 4. Dementia and Milder Cognitive Syndromes
Chapter 5. Mood Disorders
Chapter 6. Schizophrenia and Paranoid Disorders
Chapter 7. Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 8. Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders
Chapter 9. Alcohol and Drug Problems
Chapter 10. Individual and Group Psychotherapy
Chapter 11. Clinical Psychiatry in the Nursing Home
Index

About the Author

Mugdha E. Thakur, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

Dan G. Blazer, M.D., Ph.D., is JP Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Community and Family Medicine, and Vice Chair of Academic Development at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

David C. Steffens, M.D., M.H.S., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut.