The Neuropsychology of Mental Illness

Stephen J. Wood is Principal Research Fellow at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Nicholas B. Allen is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Christos Pantelis is Foundation Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Scientific Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre at The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health Centre, Victoria, Australia.

• Dedication; Foreword; Preface; List of contributors; Part I. Neuropsychological Processes: 1. Developmental neuropsychology: normative trajectories and risk for psychiatric illness; 2. Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: sensory-perceptual; 3. Processes and mechanisms in neuropsychiatry: motor-executive processes; 4. The neurobiology of the emotion response: perception, experience, and regulation; 5. Frontal asymmetry in emotion, personality and psychopathology: methodological issues in electrocortical and hemodynamic neuroimaging; 6. Approaches to understanding language dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: insights from the study of schizophrenia; 7. Associative memory; 8. The neural basis of attention; 9. The role of executive functions in psychiatric disorders; 10. Decision-making; 11. The neuropsychology of social cognition: implications for psychiatric disorders; Part II. The Importance of Methods: 12. Psychiatric diagnoses: purposes, limitations and an alternative approach; 13. Neuropsychological methods in mental disorders research: illustrations from methamphetamine dependence; 14. The study of emotion and the interaction between emotion and cognition: methodological perspectives; 15. Neurophysiology: using neurophysiological techniques to study auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia; 16. Neuroimaging; 17. Psychopharmacological modeling of psychiatric illness; 18. Cognitive phenomics; Part III. The Neuropsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: 19. Neuropsychology of ADHD and other disorders of childhood; 20. A multidimensional neurobehavioral model of personality disorders; 21. Neuropsychology in eating disorders; 22. Neurobiological and neuropsychological pathways into substance use and addictive behaviour; 23. Neuropsychology of obsessive-compulsive disorder; 24. Neuropsychological investigation in mood disorders; 25. Manic distractibility and processing efficiency in bipolar disorder; 26. Schizophrenia; Part IV. Integration and Synthesis: Are Mental Illnesses Disorders of Consciousness? A Trialogue between Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Psychiatric Perspectives: 27. Mental illness and the consciousness thesis; 28. A nonreductive physicalist account of affective consciousness; 29. Consciousness of oneself and others in relation to mental disorders; 30. Trialogue: commentaries on 'are mental illnesses disorders of consciousness?' Comments on Panksepp and on Vogeley and Newen; Affective consciousness and the psychiatric comfort zones of experienced life; The definition and the constitution of mental disorders and the role of neural dysfunctions; Response to commentaries; Understanding affects: toward a neurobiology of primary process mentalities; Replies to comments by Jaak Panksepp and by G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham.

'… as a practical resource for how to use and make sense of neuropsychology in psychiatry, it is indispensable.' British Journal of Psychiatry