Handbook of Medical Psychiatry

by Soares; Jair C.

• ISBN13: 9780824708351
• ISBN10: 0824708350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-19
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This volume examines attempts to identify genetic risk factors and environmental components contributing to the development of psychiatric disorders. It explores the symptoms, courses, outcomes, treatment responses the symptoms, courses, outcomes, treatment responses, and aetiologies of a range of psychiatric illnesses to improve disease classification schemes.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	iii
William A. Frosch
Foreword	v
Harold Alan Pincus
Preface	vii
Contributors	xv
Methodological Issues in Psychiatric Research
Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Challenges for the Future	1	(12)
William T. McKinney
Methodological Advances in Psychiatric Genetics	13	(12)
Yoav Kohn
Bernard Lerer
New Developments in the Regulation of Monoaminergic Neurotransmission	25	(18)
Alan Frazer
David A. Morilak
Lynette C. Daws
Developments in Psychiatric Neuroimaging	43	(12)
Roberto B. Sassi
Jair C. Soares
Classification of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders	55	(14)
Norah C. Feeny
Robert L. Findling
Classification of Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders	69	(10)
Tonmoy Sharma
Priya Bajaj
Classification of Mood Disorders: Implications for Psychiatric Research	79	(10)
Acioly L. T. Lacerda
Roberto B. Sassi
Jair C. Soares
Classification of Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Psychiatric Research	89	(10)
Kerrie L. Posey
Susan G. Ball
Anantha Shekhar
Classification of Dementias and Cognitive Disorders	99	(18)
Frederic Assal
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Classification of Personality Disorders: Implications for Treatment and Research	117	(32)
Dragan M. Svrakic
Robert Cloninger
Stana Stanic
Secondo Fassino
Psychiatric Manifestations in Childhood and Adolescence
Mood Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions	149	(26)
Melissa P. DelBello
Robert A. Kowatch
Anxiety Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions	175	(22)
Tiffany Farchione
Shauna N. MacMillan
David R. Rosenberg
Psychotic Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions	197	(8)
Andrew R. Gilbert
Matcheri S. Keshavan
Neurobiology of Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions	205	(18)
Antonio Y. Hardan
Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders
Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia	223	(14)
Cameron S. Carter
Stefan Ursu
Neuroimaging Findings in Schizophrenia: From Mental to Neuronal Fragmentation	237	(22)
Lawrence S. Kegeles
Marc Laruelle
The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia	259	(8)
Philip Seeman
Mary V. Seeman
Serotonergic Dysfunctions in Schizophrenia: Possible Therapeutic Implications	267	(10)
Johannes Tauscher
Nicolaas Paul Leonard Gerrit Verhoeff
The GABA Cell in Relation to Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder	277	(18)
Francine M. Benes
Sabina Berretta
Genetic Findings in Psychotic Disorders	295	(12)
Michael O'Donovan
Michael Owen
Membrane Abnormalities in Psychotic Disorders	307	(10)
Wagner Farid Gattaz
Orestes V. Forlenza
Animal Models of Psychosis	317	(18)
J. David Jentsch
Peter Olausson
Holly Moore
Mood Disorders
Affective Disorders: Imaging Studies	335	(12)
Warren D. Taylor
Ranga R. Krishnan
Role of Acetylcholine and Its Interactions with Other Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators in Affective Disorders	347	(16)
David S. Janowsky
David H. Overstreet
GABA and Mood Disorders: A Selective Review and Discussion of Future Research	363	(8)
Frederick Petty
Prasad Padala
Surender Punia
Signal Transduction Abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder	371	(24)
Yarema B. Bezchlibnyk
L. Trevor Young
Molecular Genetics and Mood Disorders	395	(12)
Daniel Souery
Julian Mendlewicz
Biological Distinction Between Unipolar and Bipolar Disorder	407	(16)
Xiaohong Wang
Charles B. Nemeroff
Anxiety Disorders
Neurobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	423	(10)
Bavanisha Vythilingum
Dan J. Stein
Neurobiology of Panic Disorder	433	(16)
Sanjay J. Mathew
Jack M. Gorman
Jeremy D. Coplan
Neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Across the Life Cycle	449	(18)
Michael D. De Bellis
Genetics of Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Agoraphobia	467	(10)
Joel Gelernter
Murray B. Stein
Dementia and Cognitive Disorders
Imaging Brain Structure and Function in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease	477	(20)
Vicente Ibanez
Stanley I. Rapoport
Brain Imaging in Dementia	497	(24)
Francesca Mapua Filbey
Robert Cohen
Trey Sunderland
Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease	521	(16)
M. Ilyas Kamboh
Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease	537	(16)
Oscar L. Lopez
Steven T. DeKosky
Substance Abuse and Dependence
Psychiatric Comorbidity: Implications for Treatment and Clinical Research	553	(10)
Jack R. Cornelius
Ihsan M. Salloum
Oscar G. Bukstein
Duncan B. Clark
Neurobiology of Alcoholism	563	(18)
Charles A. Dackis
Charles P. O'Brien
Biological Basis of Drug Addiction	581	(14)
Tony P. George
Neuroimaging Abnormalities in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism	595	(20)
Wynne K. Schiffer
Douglas A. Marsteller
Stephen L. Dewey
Genetics of Addictive Disorders	615	(18)
Tatiana Foroud
John I. Nurnberger, Jr.
Other Psychiatric Conditions
Biological Basis of Eating Disorders	633	(10)
Walter H. Kaye
Nicole C. Barbarich
Biological Basis of Personality Disorders	643	(14)
Cuneyt Iscan
Charlotte L. Allport
Kenneth R. Silk
Iatrogenic Sexual Dysfunction	657	(14)
Marlene P. Freeman
Alan J. Gelenberg
Neurobiology of Violence and Aggression	671	(12)
Michael S. McCloskey
Royce J. Lee
Emil F. Coccaro
Pathological Gambling: Clinical Aspects and Neurobiology	683	(18)
Marc N. Potenza
Neurobiology of Suicide	701	(12)
Leo Sher
J. John Mann
Sleep Disorders	713	(18)
Eric A. Nofzinger
Developments in Pharmacotherapy
Perspectives in the Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia	731	(26)
Larry Ereshefsky
Multiple Mechanisms of Lithium Action	757	(10)
Alona Shaldubina
Robert H. Belmaker
Galila Agam
Mechanisms of Action of Anticonvulsants and New Mood Stablizers	767	(26)
Robert M. Post
Elzbieta Chalecka-Franaszek
Christopher J. Hough
Mechanisms of Action of New Mood-Stabilizing Drugs	793	(14)
Joseph Levine
Yuly Bersudsky
Carmit Nadri
Yuri Yaroslavsky
Abed Azab
Alex Mishori
Galila Agam
Robert H. Belmaker
Advances in Treatment and Perspectives for New Interventions in Mood and Anxiety Disorders	807	(20)
Sandeep Patil
Saeeduddin Ahmed
William Zeigler Potter
Perspectives for Pharmacological Interventions in Eating Disorders	827	(16)
Guido K. Frank
Perspectives for New Pharmacological Treatments of Alcoholism and Substance Dependence	843	(22)
Ihsan M. Salloum
Antoine Douaihy
Subhajit Chakravorty
Perspectives on the Pharmacological Treatment of Dementia	865	(34)
Bruno P. Imbimbo
Nunzio Pomara
Pharmacological Interventions in Psychiatric Disorders Due to Medical Conditions	899	(10)
E. Sherwood Brown
Dana C. Perantie
Perspectives on Treatment Interventions in Paraphilias	909	(10)
Florence Thibaut
Potential of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Conditions	919	(14)
Thomas E. Schlaepfer
Markus Kosel
Pharmacokinetic Principles and Drug Interactions	933	(12)
Ahsan Y. Kahn
Sheldon H. Preskorn
Index	945