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 behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry have merged into a single medical subspeciality, and this volume of more than 650 pages is a survey of the entire field. There are contributions from more than 50 different eminent experts in the field. This book is both exhaustive and comprehensive. One of the strengths of the book is that the 3 editors have made significant contributions to numerous different chapters. For example, Dr David B Arciniegas has written or coauthored 9 of the 38 chapters.