Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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.

From the reviews:

“The editor’s and chapter authors are internationally recognized neuropsychiatrists and this concise monograph is a welcome addition to the fields of psychiatry and neurology. ... The targeted audience is obviously neuropsychiatrists/behavioral neurologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists, geriatric psychiatrists, and fellows in behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry training programs would find this book very useful. ... This superb monograph summarizes the field of neuropsychiatry, and anyone interested in the brain and behavior should read it ... .” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2010)