This book looks at psychiatry as a medical discipline whose roots lie in neuropathology. Beginning with a historical overview of the discipline, the book then reviews several key areas of current research in brain physiology, chemistry, and anatomy, and their relevance to psychiatric treatment. Discusses the distinction between illness and development (e.g., personality disorders) first drawn by Jaspers, examining whether psychiatrists should deal exclusively with illness and the extent to which psychiatric professionals are an appropriate and effective group for dealing with personality disorders. Also looks at concepts of disease and classification, using DSM III as its main diagnostic framework. Structural disorders of the limbic system, recent findings on schizophrenia and dementia, and biological treatments are also covered.

Biological Psychiatry

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Trimble, Michael R.

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

This book provides an authoritative summary of the current status of the field of biological psychiatry, integrating material from the basic neuroscience investigations and clinical case studies. A chapter on pharmacotherapy outlines current consensus in the field. The book includes material on such fast-moving areas as neuroimaging, panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders, as well as reports of major developments in schizophrenia, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease.

The term biological psychiatry comprises a body of knowledge which has revolutionized our understanding of most psychiatric disorders. Following an introduction to the field, the text explores its application to personality disorders and neuroses, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders.

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Internationally acclaimed leaders in the field present a complete and cohesive discussion of quality of life issues in relation to epilepsy. The book begins with an overview of the epidemiology of epilepsy, quality of life measurements, and statistical considerations. Subsequent chapters focus on specific quality of life issues in epilepsy, including those pertaining to children with epilepsy, patient and family perspectives, compliance, and epilepsy surgery. The book also includes a discussion of quality of life in epilepsy from the pharmaceutical industry's perspective.

Epilepsy and Quality of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Raven Pr

Clinical Use of Anticonvulsants in Psychiatric Disorders

Post, Robert M.

Pippenger, Charles E.

Demos Medical Pub

A magnificent examination of the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.
Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later, neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and drugs that alter the functioning of the central nervous system. But as neuropsychiatrist Michael R. Trimble explains in The Intentional Brain, the new neuropsychiatry has its own identity and is more than simply a borderland between two disparate clinical disciplines.
Looking at neuropsychiatry in the context of major cultural and artistic achievements, Trimble explores changing views of the human brain and its relation to behavior and cognition over 2,500 years of Western civilization. Beginning with the early Greek physicians and moving through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, the romantic era, the World Wars, and up to the present day, he explores understandings about the brain’s integral role in determining movement, motivation, and mood. Persuasively arguing that storytelling forms the backbone of human culture and individuality, Trimble describes the dawn and development of artistic creativity and traces the conflicts between differing philosophical views of our world and our position in it.
A sweeping history of the branch of medicine concerned with both psychic and organic aspects of mental disorder, the book reveals what scientists have learned about movement and emotion by studying people with such diseases as epilepsy, syphilis, hysteria, psychosis, movement disorders, and melancholia. The Intentional Brain is a marvelous and interdisciplinary look at the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.

The Intentional Brain: Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry

Johns Hopkins University Press

Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of the brain and brain disorders, we still have much uncharted territory to explore in neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, two rapidly growing disciplines devoted to understanding the behavioral consequences of brain dysfunction and using this information to improve patient care.
The second edition of this popular pocket guide (part of American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.'s Concise Guides series; it literally fits into the pocket of a lab coat or jacket) is updated throughout, featuring new medications and new diagnostic procedures and criteria. Like the first edition, it presents brief synopses of the major neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral syndromes, discusses their clinical assessment, and provides guidelines for management, plus a glossary, index, and bibliographies that refer to more extensive reading.
The authors summarize diagnostic and treatment information in easy-to-read tables, including clinical features, underlying pathophysiology, and treatment options for the major neuropsychiatric disorders.
Beginning with several chapters on neuropsychiatric assessment methods, basic neuroanatomic and neurochemical principles, neuropsychiatric symptoms (including unexplained neurological symptoms, such as generalized anxiety, panic, and conversion and dissociative disorders) and syndromes (e.g., frontal lobe, aphasia), and the differential diagnosis of major neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., depression, mania, psychosis, anxiety), the authors organize subsequent chapters by disease: Visual/visuospatial impairment, which is critical to human survival and most severe with right-brain dysfunction and injury, where it causes a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms Disorders of memory (etiology, anatomy, and tests for disorders such as amnesia), epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), dementia and delirium (emphasizing the clinical criteria identifying the different dementias), and movement disorders (including Parkinson's disease and hyperkinetic movement disorders and tremors) Stroke (cerebrovascular disease is one of the most common causes of acquired behavior change in adults) and brain tumors (with associated neuropsychiatric morbidity) White matter diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis), with acquired or hereditary leukoencephalopathies, which can be further classified pathologically or according to the underlying metabolic abnormality; and head injury (e.g., intracranial hematoma, infection, epilepsy) and its sequelae (e.g., personality and cognitive changes, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder)
The final chapter covers the latest treatments, such as neuropsychopharmacology (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedative hypnotics, mood-stabilizers, anticonvulsants), electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and neurosurgical procedures (i.e., destruction of large tracts of white matter to and from the frontal lobes).
An immediately useful clinical companion for psychiatrists and geriatric psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychologists both within the U.S. and abroad, this volume is also exceptionally practical for students and residents because of its broad scope and easily accessible information.

Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology (Concise Guides)

Cummings, Jeffrey L.

Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

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Biological Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry

Epilepsy and Quality of Life

Clinical Use of Anticonvulsants in Psychiatric Disorders

The Intentional Brain: Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry

Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology (Concise Guides)