The Medical Basis of Psychiatry (3rd Ed., 3rd ed. 2008)

Coordinators: Fatemi S. Hossein, Clayton Paula J.

Prefaced by: Sartorius Norman

Language: English

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The medical basis of psychiatry, third edition
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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.

Section I Syndromes – Adult 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

Classic text including updated and expanded topics

Written by international experts

Details advances in genetics, biochemistry, etiology, diagnosis and treatment

Covers adult and child syndromes, symptom clusters and special areas