Malcolm Lader – författare

Many recent discoveries in both laboratory and clinical settings have greatly increased our understanding of sleep medicine and the relevant psychopharmacology. This timely book serves to present updated information about the neuropsychopharmacology of sleep as this field enters mainstream psychiatry, neurology and medicine This volume has assembled articles that summarize and review carefully, a chosen selection of the latest discoveries concerning sleep medicine, sleep physiology and sleep pharmacology. Outstanding contributions have been sought from acknowledged experts in their respective fields.  The goal of the volume is to present the more recent developments and advances in the fields of sleep and neuropsychopharmacology, as well as to provide a context for considering them both in depth and from multidisciplinary perspectives.   This volume brings together the collective expertise of clinicians and basic researchers who represent a range of interests in neuroscience, neuropharmacology, sleep physiology, and biological rhythms.  Presenting a thoughtful balance of basic experimental and clinical facts and viewpoints, this book will serve as a foundation for understanding, and ultimately treating, sleep disorders.

Originally published in 1975, for the previous twenty years or so researchers had been working steadily, accumulating data relating to the physiological status of patients suffering from various psychiatric disorders. Their studies came under the broad heading of clinical psychophysiology – the study of physiological measures in psychiatric patients. This field included the application not only of neurophysiological information, which was of particular relevance in the study of mental illness, but also of other sub-disciplines of physiology, such as endocrinology and cardio-vascular physiology.

In this text Dr Lader, a distinguished research psychiatrist who had carried out many psychophysiological studies of anxiety and depression, provides an introduction in depth to this complex topic. He reviews the background to the discipline, and its techniques, and gives an account of the main psychophysiological findings in groups of patients suffering from anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and various other psychiatric complaints. Intended in particular for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in training at the time, this study had important implications for related fields, and for doctors in general practice. Today it can be read in its historical context.

Originally published in 1975, for the previous twenty years or so researchers had been working steadily, accumulating data relating to the physiological status of patients suffering from various psychiatric disorders. Their studies came under the broad heading of clinical psychophysiology – the study of physiological measures in psychiatric patients. This field included the application not only of neurophysiological information, which was of particular relevance in the study of mental illness, but also of other sub-disciplines of physiology, such as endocrinology and cardio-vascular physiology.

In this text Dr Lader, a distinguished research psychiatrist who had carried out many psychophysiological studies of anxiety and depression, provides an introduction in depth to this complex topic. He reviews the background to the discipline, and its techniques, and gives an account of the main psychophysiological findings in groups of patients suffering from anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and various other psychiatric complaints. Intended in particular for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in training at the time, this study had important implications for related fields, and for doctors in general practice. Today it can be read in its historical context.