Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology

This book serves as a useful guide for clinicians to better appreciate a variety of neuropsychiatric manifestations and syndromes and to generate a more expansive differential diagnosis when evaluating patients with psychopathology. The authors' goal of consolidating the wealth of information in this field into a more easily accessible format is both a worthy and well-executed objective. Strengths of this work include clinically high-yield comparative tables, diagnostic algorithms, and multiple figures correlating neuropsychiatric syndromes with various etiologies throughout. The writing is succinct yet informative and easily accessible for quicker reference when needed. The inclusion of specific assessments that may be used to evaluate different frontal lobe syndromes offers an example of the breadth of useful information in this book. Shortcomings include rare typos and lack of color in anatomic diagrams. The section on limbic encephalitis offers useful updates regarding the most common identified antibodies, but the addition of a more comprehensive table with other currently identified antibodies may have strengthened this section. This guide to neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology is an excellent book with a multitude of clinical pearls in a format that is easy to carry and reference. -- Andrew Bartholomew, B.S., M.D. * Doody *

John J. Barry, M.D., is Fellowship Director of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic, Co-Director of the Individual Psychiatry Clinic, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California. Sepideh N. Bajestan, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief of Neuropsychiatry Services, Associate Director of the Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship, Co-Director of the Individual Psychotherapy Clinic, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., Sc.D., is Director and a Research Professor for the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Michael R. Trimble, M.D., FRCP, FRCPsych, is Emeritus Professor in Behavioural Neurology at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, in London, United Kingdom.

Chapter 1. Neuropsychiatric Assessment Chapter 2. Behavioral Neurobiology Chapter 3. Symptoms and Syndromes Chapter 4. Unexplained Neurological Syndromes Chapter 5. Frontal Lobe Syndromes Chapter 6. Aphasia and Related Syndromes Chapter 7. Visual, Visuospatial and Right and Left Brain Disorders Chapter 8. Memory and Its Disorders Chapter 9. Epilepsy and Limbic System Disorders Chapter 10. Delirium Chapter 11. Dementia Chapter 12. Movement Disorders Chapter 13. Stroke Chapter 14. Brain Tumors Chapter 15. White Matter Diseases Chapter 16. Head Injury Chapter 17. Substance Related Disorders Chapter 18. Autism Chapter 19. Endocrine Disorders Thyroid and Adrenal Chapter 20. Limbic Encephalitis Chapter 21. HIV Neurocognitive Disorders Chapter 22. Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders Chapter 23. Interventional Neuropsychiatry