The Medical Basis of Psychiatry
Samenvatting
The updated edition of this classic book provides the busy clinician, psychiatric resident and medical student with the most up-to-date information on etiology, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. The reader is provided with contemporary information and literature supported by a close survey of the field. Several new chapters dealing with new concepts in biology and treatment of mental disorders have been added to complete this expanded edition.
Specificaties
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1. The mental status examination
Hagop S. Akiskal …………………………………………………………………
2. Syndromes of brain dysfunction presenting with cognitive impairment
or behavioral disturbance: delirium, dementia, and mental disorders due
to a general medical condition
Keith Isenberg, Keith Garcia …………………………………………………….
3. The amnestic syndrome
Hillel Grossman ………………………………………………………………….
4. Bipolar illness
Paula J. Clayton …………………………………………………………………
5. Major depressive disorder
David L. Dunner …………………………………………………………………
6. Schizophrenia
S. Hossein Fatemi ……………………………………………………………….
7. Schizoaffective and schizophreniform disorders
William Coryell ………………………………………………………………….
8. Delusional disorders
Raymond R. Crowe, Marc-Andre Roy …………………………………………..
9. Anxiety disorders
Richard Shelton, Aaron J. Hunt …………………………………………………
10. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tanya K. Murphy, Sarah Frazier, Soo-Jeong Kim ………………………………
11. Somatoform and dissociative disorders
C. Robert Cloninger, Mehmet Dokucu …………………………………………..
12. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Elke Eckert …………………………………………………………………………
13. Antisocial personality disorders
Karen Derefinko, Thomas A.Widiger …...............................................................…
14. Alcoholism
James C. Garbutt ………………………………………………………………..…
15. Drug addiction
Joseph J. Westermeyer, Gihyun Yoon ……………………………………………...
16. Sexual Disorders: Dysfunction, Gender Identity and Paraphilias

