Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases

This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of multiple sclerosis and related diseases, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnosis and management. Critical appraisal of the methodological aspects and limitations of the current research on the neuropsychiatry of demyelinating diseases is included, and unanswered questions are highlighted. Pharmacological aspects of management are discussed. 

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases is aimed at neurologists, multiple sclerosis specialists and psychiatrists, and will also be of interest to intensive care doctors, psychologists ad neuropsychologists, research and specialist nurses, clinical researchers and methodologists.

• Auto-immune encephalomyelitis
• anxiety
• cognitive impairment
• demyelinating disease
• depression
• multiple sclerosis
• neuromyelitis optica
• pseudo-bulbar affect

“This noteworthy book on a burgeoning field of neuropsychiatric presentations of inflammatory brain diseases, particularly inflammatory demyelinating diseases, provides excellent concise reviews on this subject. Written and edited by a group of internationally recognized experts in this field, the book is a welcome addition to the neuropsychiatric literature. … This is an excellent compilation of reviews on an important area for psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychiatrists to be cognizant of.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Book Reviews, December, 2015)

• Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pellegrin, INSERM U 862, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

  Bruno Brochet

Dr Bruno Brochet is Professor of Neurology at University of Bordeaux, France, and Head of the Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Bordeaux, France. He is an MS specialist and he created the MS Clinic of Bordeaux. He is a member of INSERM U 862 laboratory (Neurocentre Magendie), in Stéphane Oliet’s team, dedicated to research on axons and glia relationships, and leads the clinical research group on MS, cognition and imagery. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals. 

Dr Brochet is a member of several scientific and medical advisory boards on multiple sclerosis (LFSEP, ARSEP, MSIF) and current president of the scientific advisory committee of the Ligue Française contre la Sclérose en plaques (LFSEP) and the Observatoire Français de la SEP (OFSEP)(co-president). He was appointed President of the French Neurology Federation in 2015.

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