Handbook of Psychiatric Diagnostic Procedures, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Vol. II

The first volume of this Handbook discussed neuroendocrine diagnostic tests and the diagnostic use of central nervous system amine metabolites. That volume further reviewed the toxicological evaluation of patients and the laboratory evalua­ tion of treatment outcome. It suggested a system for evaluating newly admitted psychiatric patients and dermed the scope of diagnostic procedures available in the emergency department. Volume II focuses on the use and interpretation of electro physiologic and radiologic diagnostic tests in psychiatry and then explores the laboratory evaluation of special groups of patients. The clinical sections of this volume are designed to assist the physician in in­ stituting a proper workup for specific patients and defining tests which will assist them in the differential diagnosis of various psychiatric disorders. Such workups are critical to exclude possible organic disorders which can present with psychia­ tric symptoms. The workup suggested for the various classes of patients will assist the clini­ cian with differential diagnosis, provide base-line information for long-term follow­ up, delineate biological perimeters at the beginning of treatment, protect the pa­ tient from unrecognized cardiac, renal, hepatic, or endocrine disorders which could be adversely affected by the administration of medications, and provide a rational sequencing of workup for particular disorders to insure the most thorough yet cost­ efficient approach to the patient.

Electrophysiologic Diagnostic Tests.- 1. Clinical Electroencephalography as an Assessment Method in Psychiatric Practice.- 2. Sleep Electroencephalography.- 3. Identification of Melancholia Using EEG Studies of Sleep.- 4. Tests of Psychomotor Function.- 5. Evoked Potentials.- 6. Special Electrophysiological Tests: Brain Spiking, EEG Spectral Coherence.- Radiologic Tests.- 7. The Role of X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT).- Laboratory Evaluation for Special Groups of Patients.- 8. The Alcoholic Patient.- 9. The Patient with Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia.- 10. The Provisional Diagnosis of Dementia: Three Phases of Evaluation.- 11. The Comprehensive Evaluation of Cocaine and Opiate Abusers.- 12. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient.- 13. Diagnostic Approaches to Sexuality in the Medically III.- 14. Laboratory Assessment of the Paraphilias and Their Treatment with Antlandrogenic Medication.- Future Directions.- 15. The Endorphins.- 16. Computerized Psychiatric Practice.- 17. Positron Emission Transaxial Tomography.