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Casebook of Neuropsychiatry provides a fascinating tour of the critical subspecialty of neuropsychiatry, which combines neurology and psychiatry to address organic disturbances in the central nervous system that give rise to mental diseases. The book is comprised of 11 chapters, with subjects ranging from apathy to hyperkinetic states, and from depression to psychobehavioral disinhibition. The chapters are further divided into 38 cases, each of which takes the reader from clinical presentation through differential diagnosis and diagnostic workup, to current treatment options. Although the book is written in an engaging, narrative style, it has a strong, thoroughly up-to-date scientific foundation. Each case is placed in the appropriate neurobiological context, thus enhancing both the reader's clinical skills and his or her neuropsychiatric knowledge.
The book's many beneficial features include:
• Complete coverage of the neurological diseases and
treatments, including detailed material on the behavioral affiliations of
the frontal, temporal and parietal cortices; limbic system; and basal
ganglia;
• Charts, illustrations, and imaging, which allow the reader
access to all the diagnostic and medical historical documentation necessary
to fully understand each case;
• "Key Clinical Points" provided at the
end of each chapter, which focus the reader's attention on the most
important facts and strategies; and
• Suggested readings, which afford
readers the opportunity to deepen and enhance their knowledge and
understanding.
By grounding the field of neuropsychiatry in real-life clinical problems, the editors have created an engaging and practical volume that allows psychiatrists, neurologists, residents, and others to update their knowledge of current neuropsychiatric thinking, sharpen their diagnostic skills, and fully appreciate the nuance and substance of this rapidly growing field.
We highly recommend the Casebook of Neuropsychiatry to clinicians wishing to improve the sophistication of their neuropsychiatric differential diagnoses.
— Sheldon Benjamin, MD, Barbara Schildkrout, MD., and Margo D. Lauterbach, MD
This is a top-notch new book with illustrative case presentations of classic neuropsychiatric illnesses. Anyone who claims to be a neuropsychiatrist or behavioral neurologist should read and refer to this excellent book.
— Michael Schrift, D.O.
Trevor A. Hurwitz, M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.P. (UK), F.R.C.P.C., is Medical Director of the British Columbia Neuropsychiatry Program and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Warren T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University Medical School in Durham, North Carolina.
Contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.
Psychobehavioral Disinhibition
Chapter 2. Apathy
Chapter 3.
Depression
Chapter 4. Anxiety
Chapter 5. Psychosis
Chapter 6.
Hyperkinetic States
Chapter 7. Somatoform and Somatoform-Like
Disorders
Chapter 8. Alterations in Consciousness
Chapter 9. Memory
Failure
Chapter 10. Intellectual Failure
Chapter 11. Focal
Neurobehavioral Syndromes
Index