Cummings J.L., Trimble M.R. Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 302 p.Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of the brain and brain disorders, we still have much uncharted territory to explore in neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, two rapidly growing disciplines devoted to understanding the behavioral consequences of brain dysfunction and using this information to improve patient care. The second edition of this popular pocket guide (part of American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.'s Concise Guides series; it literally fits into the pocket of a lab coat or jacket) is updated throughout, featuring new medications and new diagnostic procedures and criteria. Like the first edition, it presents brief synopses of the major neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral syndromes, discusses their clinical assessment, and provides guidelines for management, plus a glossary, index, and bibliographies that refer to more extensive reading. The authors summarize diagnostic and treatment information in easy-to-read tables, including clinical features, underlying pathophysiology, and treatment options for the major neuropsychiatric disorders. Beginning with several chapters on neuropsychiatric assessment methods, basic neuroanatomic and neurochemical principles, neuropsychiatric symptoms (including unexplained neurological symptoms, such as generalized anxiety, panic, and conversion and dissociative disorders) and syndromes (e.g., frontal lobe, aphasia), and the differential diagnosis of major neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., depression, mania, psychosis, anxiety), the authors organize subsequent chapters by disease: -Visual/visuospatial impairment, which is critical to human survival and most severe with right-brain dysfunction and injury, where it causes a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms -Disorders of memory (etiology, anatomy, and tests for disorders such as amnesia), epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), dementia and delirium (emphasizing the clinical criteria identifying the different dementias), and movement disorders (including ParkinsonAs disease and hyperkinetic movement disorders and tremors) -Stroke (cerebrovascular disease is one of the most common causes of acquired behavior change in adults) and brain tumors (with associated neuropsychiatric morbidity) -White matter diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis), with acquired or hereditary leukoencephalopathies, which can be further classified pathologically or according to the underlying metabolic abnormality; and head injury (e. g., intracranial hematoma, infection, epilepsy) and its sequelae (e.g., personality and cognitive changes, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder) The final chapter covers the latest treatments, such as neuropsychopharmacology (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedative hypnotics, mood-stabilizers, anticonvulsants), electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and neurosurgical procedures (i.e., destruction of large tracts of white matter to and from the frontal lobes). An immediately useful clinical companion for psychiatrists and geriatric psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychologists both within the U.S. and abroad, this volume is also exceptionally practical for students and residents because of its broad scope and easily accessible information.Introduction to the Concise Guides SeriesDefinitions
Initial Observations
Neuropsychological Testing
Metabolic and Biochemical Investigations
Electroencephalography
Brain Imaging
References and Recommended Reading
Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, and Neurochemistry
Limbic System
Basal Ganglia
Reticular Activating System
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebellum
References and Recommended Reading
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Syndromes
Depression
Mania
Mood and Affect Lability
Delusions and Psychosis
Hallucinations and Illusions
Anxiety
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Other Repetitive Behaviors
Personality Alterations
Dissociative Disorders
Altered Sexual Behavior and Paraphilic Disorders
References and Recommended Reading
Unexplained Neurological Symptoms
Presentations
Evaluation
Nonepileptic Seizures or Pseudoseizures
Investigations
References and Recommended Reading
Frontal Lobe Syndromes
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Syndrome
Orbitofrontal Syndrome
Medial Frontal Syndrome
Diseases of the Frontal Lobe
References and Recommended Reading
Hemispheric Specialization, Cerebral Dominance, and Handedness
Aphasia
Alexias and Agraphias
Aprosodia
Dysarthria
Reiterative Speech Disturbances
Apraxia
Gerstmann and Angular Gyrus Syndromes
References and Recommended Reading
Visuoperceptual Disorders
Monocular Blindness
Achromatopsia
Simultanagnosia
Prosopagnosia
Visual Object Agnosia
Color Agnosia
Unilateral Neglect
Anosognosia and Anosognosic Syndromes
Dressing Disturbances
Constructional Disorders
Visuospatial Cognition and Memory Disorders
Neuropsychiatric Syndromes Associated With Right-Brain Dysfunction
References and Recommended Reading
Memory and Its Disorders
Anatomy of Memory
Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice
Psychogenic Amnesias
Dysmnesic States
Tests of Memory Function
References and Recommended Reading
Epilepsy
Psychiatric Disorders of Epilepsy
Other Temporal Lobe Disorders
References and Recommended Reading
Delirium
Dementia
Alzheimer's Disease
Vascular Dementia
Dementia of Depression
Frontotemporal Dementia
Hydrocephalus
Central Nervous System Infections With Dementia
Miscellaneous Dementia Syndromes
Treatment of Dementia
References and Recommended Reading
Demography
Pathology
Treatment
Depression
Drug-Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Drug-Induced Parkinsonism
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations
Tardive Dyskinesia
Sydenham's Chorea, PANDAS, and Chorea Gravidarum
Tic Syndromes
Neuroleptic-Induced Movement Disorders
References and Recommended Reading
Types of Cerebrovascular Disease
Risk Factors for Cerebrovascular Disease
Assessment of the Stroke Patient
Neuropsychiatric Syndromes Associated With Stroke
Types of Brain Tumors
Clinical Features of Brain Tumors
Treatment
References and Recommended Reading
Multiple Sclerosis
Acquired Disorders Affecting White Matter
Genetic Disorders Affecting White Matter
References and Recommended Reading
Head Injury and Its Sequelae
Other Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Trauma
Postconcussional Syndrome
References and Recommended Reading
Basic Concepts
Antidepressants
Antipsychotics (Neuroleptics)
Sedative-Hypnotics
Mood-Stabilizing Drugs
Anticonvulsant Drugs
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Neurosurgical Procedures
References and Recommended Reading