Psychiatric Neurology: A Clinical Approach serves as an essential resource for clinicians who navigate the complex interplay between neurology and psychiatry. In the contemporary clinical landscape, psychiatric professionals are increasingly tasked with identifying neurological disorders that present as psychiatric and behavioral symptoms, often in patients with multifaceted medical backgrounds during abbreviated hospitalizations. This comprehensive text equips practitioners with effective methodologies for conducting thorough neuropsychiatric assessments, includes brief instructional videos to demonstrate examination techniques, and offers practical guidance for utilizing neurodiagnostic laboratories. Furthermore, it presents strategies for differential diagnoses of frequently encountered conditions such as visual hallucinations, catatonia, apathy, affective lability, new-onset psychosis, aggression, and pain syndromes.
Contributions from leading experts distill essential insights regarding neurological disorders most relevant to psychiatric clinicians, including but not limited to dementia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, brain tumors, neurodevelopmental disabilities, headache syndromes, as well as a range of disorders such as autoimmune, functional neurological, movement, infectious, sleep-related, and neurovascular conditions. Each chapter is grounded in a detailed clinical vignette, progressing from initial presentation to final resolution, and is supplemented with summary points and review questions to facilitate self-assessment. This volume is extensive and accessible, thereby enriching the educational resources available to both trainees and seasoned clinicians, thereby empowering them to effectively address the challenges and opportunities present in contemporary psychiatric practice.
