Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, 2005 Current Clinical Neurology Series

A comprehensive, systematic, and advanced review of the scientific, preclinical, and clinical aspects of several major mental illnesses. The illnesses covered range from neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease, to psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. For each disorder, the authors uniformly discuss its incidence and prevalence, etiology, molecular targets and mechanisms of action, brain structures and pathways, animal models, signs and symptoms, genetics, treatments, and related medical terminology.

Part I. Introduction Neural Principles of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Frank I. Tarazi and Marc J. Kaufman Pharmacotherapeutic Principles of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders John A. Schetz Part II. Neurological Disorders Alzheimer's Disease Mark P. Mattson Huntington's Disease Susan E. Browne Parkinson's Disease Thomas Wichmann Part III. Psychiatric Disorders Schizophrenia Stephan Heckers and Sabina Berretta Autism Spectrum Disorders Evdokia Anagnostou and Eric Hollander Tourette's Syndrome and Tic Disorders: From Molecules and Cells to Symptoms and Management James E. Swain, Robert A. King, and James F. Leckman Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder David S. Husted, Nathan A. Shapira, and Wayne K. Goodman Unipolar Depression Julie A. Blendy and Irwin Lucki Bipolar Disorder Leonardo Tondo, Matthew J. Albert, Alexia E. Koukopoulos, Christopher Baethge, and Ross J. Baldessarini Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Kehong Zhang, Eugen Davids, and Ross J. Baldessarini Index Color Plates Color plates 1-5 appear in an insert preceding p. 51 Plate 1. Fig. 1 from Chapter 2; for complete caption see p. 30 Plate 2. Fig. 1 from Chapter 3; for complete caption see p. 52 Plate 3. Fig. 1 from Chapter 7; for complete caption see p. 133 Plate 4. Fig. 1 from Chapter 8; for complete caption see p. 156 Plate 5. Fig. 1 from Chapter 9; for complete caption see p. 173