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 ...

The objective of neuropsychiatry is to understand the diseased brain so that it can be healed. The seemingly loftier purpose of neurophilosophy is to understand the human mind and indeed consciousness on the basis of brain function. The two disciplines concur that we do not need to look beyond brain science to understand the mind. The ghost in Gilbert Ryle’s machine has been securely laid to re...

THIs book is written primarily for the newly qualified house surgeon, but it would be very useful to anyone who has to care for surgical paticnts. It is well written and very casily read, and covers all aspects of pre-and post-operative management except that of fluid and electrolyte balance. It seems a pity that such a comprehensive book slhould have becn mlarred by this omission No book on su...

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 ...

Movement disorders include both psychiatric illnesses with neurologic features and neurologic illnesses with frequent psychiatric complications. During 1998, neuropsychiatric progress was made on several fronts, notably in parkinsonism and tic disorders. This remains an exciting area for research, with many unsolved, clinically important problems, but increasing neurobiologic knowledge and soph...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000S1001 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) S(1), 04–09 4 1Department of Neurosurgery, SanBo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, 10093, Beijing, China 2Department of Neurology, SanBo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, 10093, Beijing, China 3Beijing Key Laboratory of Epilepsy, 100093, Beijing, China 4Center of Epilepsy...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is traditionally regarded as a movement disorder. In recent years, however, non-motor symptoms have been considered significant factors of disability at all stages of the illness. Behavioral and psychological symptoms or neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with PD are frequent and may represent a challenge in the management of these patients. They include anxiety, dep...

Abnormal decision making is a central feature of neuropsychiatric disorders. Recent investigations of the neural substrates underlying decision making have involved qualitative assessment of the cognition of decision making in clinical lesion studies (in patients with frontal lobe dementia) and neuropsychiatric disorders such as mania, substance abuse and personality disorders. A neural network...

The measurement and interpretation of plasma concentrations of drugs are beset by numerous problems and, up to the present time, these have militated against their routine use in neuropsychiatry. In other areas of medicine, however, drug assays have proved to be of clinical importance, and experience here has allowed the establishment of a number of principles. Measurements of plasma steady sta...