Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Neurobiological basis of behaviour ; 3. Neuropsychiatric assessment ; 4. Treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders ; 5. Principles of neuropsychiatry ; 6. Disorders of speech and language ; 7. Memory disorders ; 8. Visuospatial, visuoperceptual, and right hemisphere disturbances ; 9. Frontal lobe dysfunction ; 10. Dementia ; 11. Delirium ; 12. Psychosis, delusions, and schizophrenia ; 13. Hallucinations ; 14. Disturbances of mood and affect ; 15. Apathy and other personality disorders ; 16. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and syndromes with repetitive behaviours ; 17. Anxiety disorders ; 18. Movement disorders ; 19. Tics, startle syndromes, and myoclonus ; 20. Catatonia, motoric manifestations of psychiatric illnesses, and drug-induced motor system disturbances ; 21. Epilepsy and temporal-limbic syndromes ; 22. Dissociative states, multiple personality, and hysteria ; 23. Disturbances of sleep, appetite, and sexual function ; 24. Violence and aggression ; 25. Developmental neuropsychiatric syndromes ; 26. Focal brain disorders and related conditions

. . . an important, succinct, well written and beautifully illustrated text book of neuropsychiatry . . . The book should be essential reading for neurologists with an interest in behaviour and, indeed, in how the brain works and for psychiatrists who may need reminding that, whatever we do, think and believe, our brain is vitally involved in the process.