The Medical Basis of Psychiatry

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S. Hossein Fatemi, Paula J. Clayton
Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 M05 15 - 799 pages

Psychiatry has emerged as a burgeoning scientific field with major advances in etiology and treatment of several disorders. Just as there was excitement in the anatomic advances that took place a hundred years ago when Emil Kraepelin and his collaborators took on the enormous task of classification of psychiatric disorders based on rational scientific thinking, new advances in genetics, biochemistry, neuroanatomy and pharmacotherapy of mental disorders have brought us even closer to a better understanding of complex disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and even autism. The major goal of the previous edition of this classic book was to update the busy clinician, psychiatric resident and medical student with the most up-to-date information on etiology, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This goal remains the focus of the third edition of this book. In this updated and expanded edition, the reader is provided with the most contemporary information and literature supported by a close survey of the field. Several new chapters dealing with new concepts in biology and treatment of mental disorders have been added. This new edition of this classic title, with its focus on biologic and medical aspects of psychiatry, will continue to be of significant help to all interested in the scientific practice of psychiatry.

 

Contents

The Mental Status Examination
3
Syndromes of Brain Dysfunction Presenting with Cognitive Impairment or Behavioral
17
The Amnestic Syndrome
39
Bipolar Illness 47
46
Major Depressive Disorder
73
Schizophrenia 85
84
Schizoaffective and Schizophreniform Disorders
109
Delusional Disorders
125
Childhood Anxiety Disorders
375
Schizophrenia in Children and Adolescents
391
Mood Disturbances
403
Anxiety Symptoms 419
418
Thought Disorder
435
Phenomenology of Coarse Brain Disease
445
Catatonia in Psychiatric Illnesses
455
Personality Disorders
471

Anxiety Disorders 133
132
ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder
161
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
181
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
195
Antisocial Personality Disorder 213
212
Alcoholism
227
Drug Addiction
251
Dysfunction Gender Identity and Paraphilias
267
Adjustment Disorder Factitious Disorder Illicit Steroid Abuse
284
Disruptive Behavior Disorders
301
Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents 335
334
Autistic Disorder
355
Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders
487
Novel Mechanisms of Drug Treatment in Psychiatry
519
Use of Laboratory Assessments in Psychiatry
535
Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness
547
Suicide and Attempted Suicide 561
560
Clinical Psychopharmacology and Other Somatic Therapies
577
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
635
Forensic Psychiatry
651
Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
695
Indications Use and Adverse Effects 725
724
Normal Laboratory Values and Drug Therapeutic and Toxic Ranges
753
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