Disorders of Brain and Mind

by Edited by Maria A. Ron , Anthony S. David

• ISBN13: 9780521778510
• ISBN10: 0521778514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Great advances have been made in recent years towards a better understanding of the healthy brain and the physical basis of psychiatric disorder. This text brings together contributions from leading international authorities to provide a timely and multidisciplinary overview of this fast developing area. Its broad coverage ranges from epilepsy and schizophrenia to basal ganglia disorder and brain lesions. In many cases, a clinically oriented chapter is paired with one which describes the basic science which underpins it and considerable attention is given to the impact of the new technologies - structural and functional neuroimaging. In highlighting the basic pathophysiological mechanisms of multifaceted clinical manifestations, this book serves as a valuable review of current neuropsychiatry. It will be welcomed by clinicians, researchers and students alike from neuroscience through to neuropsychology and psychiatry.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
D. Frank Benson
SECTION I Frontal lobes and neuropsychiatry
The neuropsychology of the frontal lobes	11	(24)
Susan E. McPherson
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Frontal lobe structural abnormalities in schizophrenia: evidence from neuroimaging	35	(22)
Brian K. Toone
SECTION II Basal ganglia and neuropsychiatry
The neuropsychology of basal ganglia disorders: an integrative cognitive and comparative approach	57	(27)
Trevor W. Robbins
Adrian M. Owen
Barbara J. Sahakian
The behavioural pharmacology of brain dopamine systems: implications for the cognitive pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia	84	(41)
Eileen Joyce
Sam Hutton
SECTION III Memory and its disorders
Neuropsychology of memory and amnesia	125	(22)
Andrew R. Mayes
Clinical and neuropsychological studies of patients with amnesic disorders	147	(30)
Michael D. Kopelman
SECTION IV Brain disease and mental illness
Psychiatric manifestations of demonstrable brain disease	177	(19)
Maria A. Ron
Structural brain imaging in the psychoses	196	(17)
Shon Lewis
SECTION V Epilepsy: biology and behaviour
Behaviour in chronic experimental epilepsies	213	(20)
John G.R. Jefferys
Jane Mellanby
A neurobiological perspective of the behaviour disorders of epilepsy	233	(22)
Michael R. Trimble
SECTION VI Perspectives on neurodevelopment: the case of schizophrenia
Early disorders and later schizophrenia: a developmental neuropsychiatric perspective	255	(25)
Eric Taylor
Neurodevelopmental disturbances in the aetiology of schizophrenia	280	(25)
J. Megginson Hollister
Tyrone D. Cannon
SECTION VII Imaging brain and mind: new approaches
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in neuropsychiatry	305	(31)
Michael Maier
The hallucination: a disorder of brain and mind	336	(27)
Anthony S. David
Geraldo Busatto
Index	363