Research Catalog

Title

The Medical basis of psychiatry / [edited by] George Winokur, Paula J. Clayton.

Publication

Philadelphia : Saunders, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clayton, Paula J., 1934-
• Winokur, George.

Description

xix, 603 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subject

• Biological psychiatry
• Mental Disorders
• Psychiatry
• Psychopathology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Mental Status Examination / Hagop S. Akiskal -- Ch. 2. Syndromes of Brain Dysfunction Presenting with Cognitive Impairment or Behavioral Disturbance: Delirium, Dementia, and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition / Michael K. Popkin -- Ch. 3. The Amnestic Syndrome / Rafiq Waziri -- Ch. 4. Bipolar Illness / Paula J. Clayton -- Ch. 5. Unipolar Depression / George Winokur -- Ch. 6. Schizophrenia / Ming T. Tsuang and Stephen V. Faraone -- Ch. 7. Schizoaffective and Schizophreniform Disorders / William Coryell -- Ch. 8. Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders / Raymond R. Crowe and Marc-Andre Roy -- Ch. 9. Anxiety Disorders / Russell Noyes, Jr. and Craig S. Holt -- Ch. 10. Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis / Thomas B. Mackenzie -- Ch. 11. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders / C. Robert Cloninger -- Ch. 12. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa / Elke D. Eckert and James E. Mitchell -- Ch. 13. Antisocial Personality / Remi Cadoret -- Ch. 14. Alcoholism / Barry Liskow and Donald W. Goodwin.
• Ch. 15. Drug Abuse / Joseph Westermeyer -- Ch. 16. Sexual Disorders / Gene G. Abel, Joanne L. Rouleau and Candice A. Osborn -- Ch. 17. Other Psychiatric Syndromes: Adjustment Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Illicit Steroid Abuse / William R. Yates -- Ch. 18. The Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Attention Deficit Disorders, Oppositional Disorder, and Conduct Disorder / Dennis P. Cantwell -- Ch. 19. Major Affective Disorders in Children and Adolescents / Barry D. Garfinkel -- Ch. 20. Autistic Disorder and Schizophrenia in Childhood / Luke Y. Tsai -- Ch. 21. Anxiety, Phobia, and Obsessive Disorders in Children / Gail A. Bernstein -- Ch. 22. Mood Disturbances / Eagop S. Akiskal -- Ch. 23. Anxiety Symptoms / Charles Van Valkenburg -- Ch. 24. Thought Disorder / Nancy C. Andreasen -- Ch. 25. Phenomenology of Coarse Brain Disease / Robert G. Robinson -- Ch. 26. Motor Symptoms in Psychiatric Illnesses / Keith L. Rogers -- Ch. 27. Personality Disorders / Bruce Pfohl.
• Ch. 28. The Neurobiologic Basis of Psychiatric Illnesses / Fritz A. Henn -- Ch. 29. Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders / John I. Nurnberger -- Ch. 30. Use of the Laboratory in Psychiatry / Ronald L. Martin and Sheldon H. Preskorn -- Ch. 31. Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness / Thomas J. Craig -- Ch. 32. Suicide and Attempted Suicide / George E. Murphy -- Ch. 33. Clinical Psychopharmacology and Other Somatic Therapies / Paul J. Perry, Bruce Alexander and Michael J. Garvey.

ISBN

0721664849

LCCN

93022601

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries