Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Hardcover)

About this book

Around the world societies are facing growing aging populations with the concomitant increase in neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropsychiatric disorders are organic brain diseases with psychiatric symptoms, as in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia, amnesic syndrome, and personality–behavioral changes. As a clinical science, neuropsychiatry aims to explore the complex interrelationship between behavior and brain function from a variety of perspectives, including those of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry. This concise and updated monograph comprises the latest findings in the field and includes chapters on delusional symptoms, mood disorders and neurotic symptoms, cognitive impairment, behavioral and personality changes, and recently, cerebral alterations revealed in PTSD patients and in endogenous psychoses through neuroimaging and neuropathology. These findings will certainly widen the realm of neuropsychiatry going forward and will prove of great value to specialists as well as to academics and trainees in neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and clinical genetics. Ultimately, neuropsychiatry aims to prevent and reduce the suffering of individuals with the psychiatric symptoms of cerebral disorders.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Dementia - International Neuropsychiatric Association - Neuropsychiatry - Seizure Disorders - Traumatic Brain Injury
Related subjects » Neurology

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction.- Part II: Neuropsychiatric Syndromes.- Part III: Seizure Disorders.- Part IV: Traumatic Brain Injury.- Part V: Vascular and Inflamatory Disorders.- Part VI: Neurodegenerative Disorders.- Part VII: Topics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Part VIII: International Neuropsychiatric Association.