The fundamentals of clinical neuropsychiatry - Taylor, Michael Alan (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Brain Organization and Neurobehavioral and Neurocognitive Function -- Neuropsychiatric Evaluation -- Psychopathologic Phenomena -- The Cognitive and Behavioral Neurologic Examination -- Patient Management -- Personality and Personality Disorders -- Depression -- Bipolar Mood Disorders -- Psychosis -- Epilepsy and Related Syndromes -- Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke -- Dementia -- Substance-Induced Neuropsychiatric Disorders -- Obsessional Syndromes -- Anxiety Disorders -- Aches and Pains, Sex and Sleep, and Violence
Increasingly, psychiatrists make little distinction between psychiatric and neurologic disorders, considering them all as dysfunctions of the central nervous system. This is a practical work intended for trainees and practicing clinicians unfamiliar with the relatively new field of neuropsychiatry