Developmental Neuropsychiatry (2 volumes)

Neuropsychiatry

The purpose of this book is to exhaustively review what appears to be a general integration between the subspecialities of neurology and psychiatry. In the Foreward, it is pointed out that practitioners of neurology and psychiatry “have been assigned the uniquely challenging task of treating the most complex disorders of the most complex organ in the body.”p xi The Preface notes that recent beh...

Neuropsychiatry in World War II, Volume 2, Overseas theatres

Developmental variation in amygdala volumes among children with posttraumatic stress.

This article examined associations between indices of maturation (age and Tanner stage) and amygdala volumes in 24 youth (aged 7-14) with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and a matched control group. Fifteen of the youth with exposure to trauma were also re-evaluated one year later. A positive association between maturation and right amygdala volumes was observed in the trauma group but n...

ADVANCES IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY Neuropsychiatry of the basal ganglia

This review aims to relate recent findings describing the role and neural connectivity of the basal ganglia to the clinical neuropsychiatry of basal ganglia movement disorders and to the role of basal ganglia disturbances in “psychiatric”’ states. Articles relating to the relevant topics were initially collected through MEDLINE and papers relating to the clinical conditions discussed were also ...

Neuropsychiatry of Huntington's disease

Psychiatric manifestations are an integral part of Huntington's disease. They may be divided into those syndromes which resemble idiopathic disorders, but for which HD patients may be particularly at risk, those constellations which are peculiar to HD and related conditions, such as the executive dysfunction syndrome, and those symptoms that can truly be regarded as nonspecific, such as deliriu...