Disorders of Brain and Mind

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.

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Introduction D. F. Benson
Part I. Basal Ganglia and Neuropsychiatry
1. The neuropsychology of basal ganglia disorders, an integrative cognitive and comparative approach T. W. Robbins, A. M. Owen and B. J. Sahakian
2. The behavioural pharmacology of brain dopamine systems, implications for the cognitive pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia E. Joyce and S. Hutton
Part II. Frontal Lobes and Neuropsychiatry
3. The neuropsychology of the frontal lobes S. E. McPherson and J. L. Cummings
4. Frontal lobe structural abnormalities in schizophrenia, evidence from neuroimaging B. Toone
Part III. Memory and its Disorders
5. Neuropsychology of memory and amnesia A. R. Mayes
6. Clinical and neuropsychological studies of patients with amnesic disorders M. D. Kopelman
Part IV. Brain Disease and Mental Illness
7. Psychiatric manifestations of demonstrable brain disease M. A. Ron
8. Structural brain imaging in the psychoses S. Lewis
Part V. Epilepsy, Biology and Behaviour
9. Behaviour in chronic experimental epilepsies J. G. R. Jefferys and J. Mellanby
10. A neurobiological perspective of the behaviour disorders of epilepsy M. R. Trimble
Part VI. Perspectives on Neurodevelopment, The Case of Schizophrenia
11. Early disorders and later schizophrenia, a developmental neuropsychiatric perspective E. Taylor
12. Neurodevelopmental disturbances in the aetiology of schizophrenia J. M. Hollister and T. D. Cannon
Part VII. Imaging Brain and Mind
13. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in neuropsychiatry M. Maier
14. The hallucination, a disorder of brain and mind A. S. David and G. Busatto.