Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology (Concise Guides) [Paperback]

Jeffrey L. Cummings (Author), Michael R. Trimble (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1585620785 | ISBN-13: 978-1585620784 | Publication Date: March 2002 | Edition: 2

Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of the brain and brain disorders, we still have much uncharted territory to explore in neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, two rapidly growing disciplines devoted to understanding the behavioral consequences of brain dysfunction and using this information to improve patient care. The second edition of this popular pocket guide (part of American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.'s Concise Guides series; it literally fits into the pocket of a lab coat or jacket) is updated throughout, featuring new medications and new diagnostic procedures and criteria. Like the first edition, it presents brief synopses of the major neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral syndromes, discusses their clinical assessment, and provides guidelines for management, plus a glossary, index, and bibliographies that refer to more extensive reading. The authors summarize diagnostic and treatment information in easy-to-read tables, including clinical features, underlying pathophysiology, and treatment options for the major neuropsychiatric disorders. Beginning with several chapters on neuropsychiatric assessment methods, basic neuroanatomic and neurochemical principles, neuropsychiatric symptoms (including unexplained neurological symptoms, such as generalized anxiety, panic, and conversion and dissociative disorders) and syndromes (e.g., frontal lobe, aphasia), and the differential diagnosis of major neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., depression, mania, psychosis, anxiety), the authors organize subsequent chapters by disease: -Visual/visuospatial impairment, which is critical to human survival and most severe with right-brain dysfunction and injury, where it causes a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms -Disorders of memory (etiology, anatomy, and tests for disorders such as amnesia), epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), dementia and delirium (emphasizing the clinical criteria identifying the different dementias), and movement disorders (including ParkinsonAs disease and hyperkinetic movement disorders and tremors) -Stroke (cerebrovascular disease is one of the most common causes of acquired behavior change in adults) and brain tumors (with associated neuropsychiatric morbidity) -White matter diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis), with acquired or hereditary leukoencephalopathies, which can be further classified pathologically or according to the underlying metabolic abnormality; and head injury (e. g., intracranial hematoma, infection, epilepsy) and its sequelae (e.g., personality and cognitive changes, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder) The final chapter covers the latest treatments, such as neuropsychopharmacology (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedative hypnotics, mood-stabilizers, anticonvulsants), electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and neurosurgical procedures (i.e., destruction of large tracts of white matter to and from the frontal lobes). An immediately useful clinical companion for psychiatrists and geriatric psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychologists both within the U.S. and abroad, this volume is also exceptionally practical for students and residents because of its broad scope and easily accessible information.

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"This is a very useful and easy to read manual that the clinician can use on a daily, quick reference basis. This book is written in a very practical, user-friendly format differentiating itself from other books in this category."-- "Raj Tummala, M.D., Doody's Health Science Book Review Journal", "August 2002"

About the Author

Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., is Augustus S. Rose Professor of Neurology and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. Michael R. Trimble, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., is Raymond Way Professor in Behavioral Neurology at the Institute of Neurology in Queen Square in London, England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 2 edition (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585620785
• ISBN-13: 978-1585620784
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Egregiously Inaccurate, November 30, 2009

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Trimble has made a cottage industry out of blaming patients for their physical injuries and diseases. His book on NeuroAnatomy classifies ME (CFS) as a "disorder of motivation." And in Somatoform Disorders Trimble includes ME (CFS) and Fibromyalgia as somatoform disorders noting that people with ME show "Abnormal Illness Behaviour" like avoiding exercise, remaining bedbound and "often adopting a wheelchair lifestyle and a destiny of dependence." There are over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. Trimble's antiscience bias makes him difficult to believe on any medical topic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous, June 13, 2003

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Trimble is an amazing fellow: amongst other things, he seems to be a master of conciseness because his Biological Psychiatry, now very out of date, was also a marvel of compression. This work is not on that level (and was not intended to be) but I think it is a wonderful companion to the Pocket Reference for Psychiatrists. Though I normally hate pocket books that pretend to be miniature texts, somehow this one succeeds and with those two pocket books in the lab coat, I think a psychiatry resident has everything he needs to be an excellent physician, and not much less than he needs to know to pass the boards.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, May 1, 2000

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An excellent pocket reference for externs, interns, and residents. Provides detailed information on a variety of topics designed to help formulate correct diagnoses. A must for all starting out in the behavioral health field.