Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology

Chapter 1. Neuropsychiatric Assessment

Chapter 2. Behavioral Neurobiology

Chapter 3. Symptoms and Syndromes

Chapter 4. Unexplained Neurological Syndromes

Chapter 5. Frontal Lobe Syndromes

Chapter 6. Aphasia and Related Syndromes

Chapter 7. Visual, Visuospatial and Right and Left Brain Disorders

Chapter 8. Memory and Its Disorders

Chapter 9. Epilepsy and Limbic System Disorders

Chapter 10. Delirium

Chapter 11. Dementia

Chapter 12. Movement Disorders

Chapter 13. Stroke

Chapter 14. Brain Tumors

Chapter 15. White Matter Diseases

Chapter 16. Head Injury

Chapter 17. Substance Related Disorders

Chapter 18. Autism

Chapter 19. Endocrine Disorders - Thyroid and Adrenal

Chapter 20. Limbic Encephalitis

Chapter 21. HIV Neurocognitive Disorders

Chapter 22. Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Chapter 23. Interventional Neuropsychiatry

For nearly 30 years, the Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology has been an indispensable companion for clinicians caring for patients struggling with everything from delusions and hallucinations to aphasia and stroke.

 

This third edition combines all of the scientific rigor of its predecessors with a renewed emphasis on kind, empathetic care. It has been updated to account for the development of new techniques in brain imaging; improvement in electrophysiological methods to better detect epilepsy and sleep disorders; and a growing list of blood and spinal fluid biomarkers that have revolutionized diagnostic capability.

 

Readers will benefit from guidance on novel treatments and improved therapies for a range of disorders that includes * Memory disorders* Movement disorders* Brain tumors* Substance related disorders* HIV neurocognitive disorders

 

A wealth of tables throughout the book will help busy clinicians quickly reference relevant information, regardless of the patient's presentation. And an extensive list of recommended readings opens the door to further study.

 

As useful for trainees as it is for the experienced practitioner, the Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Third Edition offers the latest science and expert guidance to both achieve accurate diagnosis and undertake effective management of patients with complex neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders.

 

 

AUTHORS

 

John J. Barry, M.D., is Fellowship Director of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic, Co-Director of the Individual Psychiatry Clinic, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California.

 

Sepideh N. Bajestan, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief of Neuropsychiatry Services, Associate Director of the Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship, Co-Director of the Individual Psychotherapy Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.

 

Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., Sc.D., is Director and a Research Professor for the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Michael R. Trimble, M.D., FRCP, FRCPsych, is Emeritus Professor in Behavioural Neurology at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, in London, United Kingdom.