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| Acknowledgements | |
| Quotations | |
| Preface to the First Edition | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| Introduction and Preface to the Third Edition | |
| Principles of Brain Function and Structure: 1 Genetics, Physiology and Chemistry | |
| Introduction | |
| Genetics | |
| Brain chemistry and metabolism | |
| The metabolism of glucose | |
| Proteins and fatty acids | |
| Cell membranes | |
| Synapses | |
| Receptors | |
| Neurones | |
| Neurotransmitters | |
| Interrelationships among transmitters | |
| Transmitter dispersal | |
| CNS inflammation | |
| Principles of Brain Function and Structure: 2 Anatomy | |
| Introduction | |
| The neuroanatomy of emotion | |
| Individual anatomical structures | |
| Ascending and descending limbic-system connections | |
| Macrosystems | |
| The basal ganglia and the re-entrant circuits | |
| The ventral striatum and 'limbic striatum' | |
| The ascending cholinergic systems | |
| Cortical regions of interest | |
| The cerebellum | |
| Important Brain-Behaviour Relationships | |
| Introduction | |
| Important anatomical structures for understanding behaviour | |
| Some specific behaviours | |
| Limbic lobe disorders in a clinical context | |
| Re-entrant circuits in a clinical context | |
| The frontal lobes in a clinical context | |
| Laterality | |
| Classifications and Clinical Investigations | |
| Introduction | |
| Signs, symptoms, syndromes and disease | |
| Classification in psychiatry | |
| Clinical investigation | |
| Personality Disorders | |
| General introduction | |
| Introduction to the concept of personality | |
| Genetics | |
| Somatic variables | |
| Metabolic and biochemical findings | |
| Neurophysiological and neurological data | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| Anxiety Disorders | |
| Introduction | |
| Genetics | |
| Somatic variables | |
| Metabolic and biochemical findings | |
| Neurochemical investigations | |
| Neurophysiological and neurological data | |
| Imaging | |
| Obsessive-compulsive disorder | |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| The Schizophrenias | |
| Introduction | |
| Genetics | |
| Somatic variables | |
| Metabolic and biochemical findings | |
| Neurochemical investigations | |
| Neurophysiological and neurological data | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| Affective Disorders | |
| Introduction | |
| Genetics | |
| Metabolic and biochemical findings | |
| Neurochemical investigations | |
| Neurophysiological and neurological data | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| The Addictions and Disorders of Motivation | |
| Introduction | |
| Disorders of motivation | |
| Conditioning | |
| Genetics | |
| Metabolic and biochemical findings | |
| Neurophysiological and neurological data | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| Epilepsy | |
| Introduction | |
| Prevalence and clinical characteristics | |
| Classification | |
| Genetics | |
| Symptomatic epilepsy | |
| Biochemical findings | |
| Investigation and differential diagnosis | |
| Psychiatric disorders in epilepsy | |
| Cognitive deterioration and epilepsy | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| The Dementias | |
| Introduction | |
| Definition | |
| Prevalence | |
| Diagnosis and classification | |
| Alzheimer's disease | |
| Dementia of frontal-lobe type | |
| Focal cortical atrophies | |
| Dementia with Lewy bodies | |
| Vascular dementias | |
| Other forms of dementia | |
| Further causes of dementia | |
| Some outstanding issues | |
| Biological Treatments | |
| Introduction | |
| Pharmacology: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics | |
| Antidepressants | |
| Antipsychotic drugs | |
| Anxiolytics and hypnotics | |
| Beta-Adrenergic blockers | |
| Lithium | |
| Anticonvulsants | |
| Drugs for the treatment of dementia | |
| Medications for the addictions | |
| Brain-stimulation therapies | |
| Sleep-deprivation therapy | |
| Epilogue: Progress toward a Neuroanatomically, Biological-psychiatrically Informed Classification Scheme in Psychiatry | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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