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Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines
The ''Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines'' (also known by the abbreviation MPG) is a referenced prescribing guideline for psychotropic drugs. History of publication Originally the MPG was produced for local readership in Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospital in London.''Toone B The Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust Prescribing Guidelines 1999'', J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 68, London, 2000, p. 125 The 5th edition was the first to be published commercially in 1999 by Martin Dunitz. The 6th (2001) and 7th (2003) were also published by Martin Dunitz. In 2004, Martin Dunitz were subsumed into Taylor and Francis Group and the 8th edition was published under this imprint in 2005. Taylor and Francis then became part of Informa Healthcare who published the 9th edition in 2007 and the 10th edition in 2009. The MPG is revised every two years or so and the 11th edition was published in 2011 by Wiley Blackwell. The 12th edition was published on 17 April 2015 and is available in paperb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Abie Horowitz
Mark Abie Horowitz is an Australian and British psychiatry researcher and deprescribing expert. He is the lead author of the ''Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines'', and currently works as a Clinical Research Fellow in psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust, running a deprescribing clinic. He holds a PhD in the Neuroscience, neurobiology of Depression (mood), depression and the pharmacology of Antidepressant, antidepressants from King's College London. Horowitz has stated that his career ambitions were influenced by his own experience with having severe Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome, withdrawal symptoms when trying to stop his own antidepressants after 15 years of being on them. When trying to wean himself down according to the clinical guidelines at the time, he was blindsided by symptoms so severe they up-ended his life, forcing him to return to his original dose. He and his colleague David Taylor (professor), David Taylor have called for more research to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
