Psychiatric Neurology: A Clinical Approach is an indispensable guide for clinicians navigating the intersection of neurology and psychiatry. In the current practice environment, psychiatric professionals are increasingly called on to recognize neurological disorders presenting with psychiatric and behavioral symptoms—often in medically complex patients during ever-shorter hospital stays. This detailed volume empowers practitioners with strategies for conducting neuropsychiatric examinations, short videos demonstrating examination techniques, tips for using the neurodiagnostic laboratory, and approaches to differential diagnoses for commonly encountered issues such as visual hallucinations, catatonia, apathy, affective lability, new-onset psychosis, aggression and pain syndromes. Expert contributors distill critical knowledge on the neurological disorders most likely to be encountered by psychiatric clinicians, including dementia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, brain tumors, neurodevelopmental disabilities, headache, toxic states; and autoimmune, functional neurological, movement, infectious, sleep and neurovascular disorders. Each chapter is anchored by a compelling clinical vignette, moving from presentation to resolution, and reinforced by summary points and review questions for self-assessment. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book adds to the educational resources available to both trainees and experienced clinicians, equipping them to meet the challenges and opportunities of today's practice
Sheldon Benjamin, M.D., graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed psychiatry residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center, neurology residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Boston University, and Behavioral Neurology fellowship at the Boston Veterans Administration and Boston University. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of Neuropsychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School, where he served as Interim Chair of Psychiatry from 2017 to 2020, and Vice Chair for Education and Director of the UMass Chan Psychiatry Residency Program for 25 years before stepping down and transitioning to Associate Director. He founded the combined neurology/psychiatry residency program at UMass Chan Medical School and served as its co-director from 1997 to 2020, when he became Associate Director. He has served as President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training and the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He currently serves as secretary of the International Neuropsychiatric Association and serves on the Psychiatry Review Committee of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and on the board of directors of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Benjamin has taught neuropsychiatry to psychiatry residents for 40 years.
Kathy Niu, M.D., graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and then completed the Combined Neurology/Psychiatry Residency at UMass Chan Medical School. Previously on the faculty of the Duke University and Vanderbilt University medical schools, she has served in roles including Psychiatry Clerkship Director and Co-Director of a Brain, Behavior, and Movement course for medical students. She started working on this textbook while at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and completed it at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where she now serves as the Program Director of the Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency and practices in both the psychiatry and neurology departments.
