Neuropsychiatric Disorders

1. Neurodegenerative Disorders

   1. Clinicopathological Characterization of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

      • Yoshio Mitsuyama

      Pages 261-270

   2. Diffuse Neurofibrillary Tangles with Calcification

      • Shigetoshi Kuroda, Hideki Ishizu, Seishi Terada, Osamu Yokota, Yasuyuki Tanabe, Takashi Haraguchi

      Pages 271-278

2. Topics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

   1. Ayahuasca: Current Interest in an Ancient Ritual

      • Eduardo Gastelumendi

      Pages 279-286

   2. The Molecular Genetics of Suicide

      • Kiyoshi Maeda, Osamu Shirakawa, Naoki Nishiguchi, Masaaki Fukutake

      Pages 287-297

3. International Neuropsychiatric Association

   1. Brief History and Current Status of the International Neuropsychiatric Association

      • Koho Miyoshi

      Pages 299-314

   2. Core Curriculum in Neuropsychiatry of the International Neuropsychiatric Association*

      • Perminder Sachdev, The Curriculum Committee of the International Neuropsychiatric Association

      Pages 317-346

4. Back Matter

   Pages 461-480

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Around the world societies are facing growing aging populations with the concomitant increase in neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropsychiatric disorders are organic brain diseases with psychiatric symptoms, as in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia, amnesic syndrome, and personality–behavioral changes. As a clinical science, neuropsychiatry aims to explore the complex interrelationship between behavior and brain function from a variety of perspectives, including those of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry. This concise and updated monograph comprises the latest findings in the field and includes chapters on delusional symptoms, mood disorders and neurotic symptoms, cognitive impairment, behavioral and personality changes, and recently, cerebral alterations revealed in PTSD patients and in endogenous psychoses through neuroimaging and neuropathology. These findings will certainly widen the realm of neuropsychiatry going forward and will prove of great value to specialists as well as to academics and trainees in neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and clinical genetics. Ultimately, neuropsychiatry aims to prevent and reduce the suffering of individuals with the psychiatric symptoms of cerebral disorders.

• Alzheimer
• Parkinson
• Syndrom
• alzheimer's disease
• brain
• brain injury
• dementia
• genetics
• mood disorder
• neurology
• psychiatric disorder
• psychiatry
• syndromes
• trauma
• traumatic brain injury

From the reviews:

“The editor’s and chapter authors are internationally recognized neuropsychiatrists and this concise monograph is a welcome addition to the fields of psychiatry and neurology. … The targeted audience is obviously neuropsychiatrists/behavioral neurologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists, geriatric psychiatrists, and fellows in behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry training programs would find this book very useful. … This superb monograph summarizes the field of neuropsychiatry, and anyone interested in the brain and behavior should read it … .” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2010)

• Jinmeikai Research Institute for Mental Health, Nishinomiya, Japan

  Koho Miyoshi, Yasushi Morimura

• Ohmura Hospital, Miki, Japan

  Koho Miyoshi

• Department of Occupational Therapy, Kobe Gakuin University School of Rehabilitation, Nishi-ku, Japan

  Kiyoshi Maeda

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