Main description:

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013

Previously published as Textbook of Clinical Neuropsychiatry, this book has been re-titled and thoroughly updated, redesigned, and enhanced to include the fundamentals of neuroscience. This highly acclaimed text provides a definitive, clinically oriented, yet comprehensive book covering neuropsychiatry and neuroscience for registrars, residents, clinicians, and practitioners of neuropsychiatry and its related fields.

New to this edition:

A completely new section covering the fundamentals of neuroscience
Additions to the clinical coverage including chronic fatigue conditions, personality disorders, dissociative disorders, and impulse control disorders
Thoroughly redesigned with extensive use of high-quality color clinical photographs to help illustrate the most difficult concepts
Access to a free eBook containing all the text and a wealth of supplementary material to be accessed online or from the reader's desktop

Contents:

Neuroscience Fundamentals: Neuroscience fundamentals. Diagnostic Assessment: Diagnostic assessment. Signs, Symptoms, And Syndromes: Cortical signs and symptoms. bnormal movements. Other signs and symptoms. Syndromes of disturbances of consciousness and cognition. Syndromes of disturbances of mood and affect. Other major syndromes. Specific Disorders: Neurodegenerative and movement disorders. Congenital, developmental, and other childhood-onset disorders. Vascular disorders. Trauma. Hypoxic-ischemic disorders. Nutritional, toxic, and metabolic disorders. Infectious and related disorders. Prion diseases. Endocrinologic disorders. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivity. Immune-related disorders. Sleep disorders. Brain tumors and hydrocephalus. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Mood disorders. Anxiety disorders. Dissociative disorders. Personality disorders. Impulse control disorders. Substance use disorders. Medication- and substance-induced disorders.