Rating Scales for Psychoneuropharmacology A Comprehensive Database for the Rapid Selection of Relevant Scales for Clinical Trials

Rating Scales for Psychoneuropharmacology is a completely updated, expanded and enhanced revision of the bookComparative Evaluation of Rating Scales for Clinical Psychopharmacology, a standard reference work for investigators working in psychiatry and neurology. It is being published for the first time in a compact and accessible CD-ROM format, enabling far greater amounts of information and enhanced search and navigation tools to be incorporated. It is a comprehensive, interactive reference work on CD-ROM which allows end users to select the scales applicable to the therapeutic area and the particular conditions in which they wish to test a drug as well as the specific questions they want to answer and, ultimately, to arrive at a final selection by means of a comparison of the information provided for each. Updated Since the publication of the first edition in 1988, the development of a large number of new scales and the successful introduction of 'good clinical practice', have completely changed the field. Moreover, alternative rating scales, aiming at measuring daily function, life satisfaction or even cost effectiveness of new therapies, have gained wide acceptance, and affections that were neglected in the past have become new areas of investigation. The broad and up to date coverage of this CD-ROM contains three times as much information as the book. Expanded In contrast with the first edition, this CD-ROM covers all areas of the fields of psychiatry and neurology. Straightforward "disease scales" as well as "specific purpose" scales, such as those rating insight and depressive cognition, are included. It also features chapters on the evaluation of social function and quality of life, cognition in elderly subjects, psychiatric disturbances in children, and the most frequently used diagnostic instruments. This widening of the scope explains the change of title. Enhanced creates an interactive database allows you to search scales (on the basis of research area, rater type, sub-scale headings, factor names, length, type of rating and scores of the individual scale quality ratings) provides a quality rating (the authors' rating of individual scales for relevance, resolution and usefulness) and enables comparison of scales selected for a particular purposeVan Riezen, H. is the author of 'Rating Scales for Psychoneuropharmacology A Comprehensive Database for the Rapid Selection of Relevant Scales for Clinical Trials' with ISBN 9780444828057 and ISBN 0444828052.