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Main description:
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.
Contents:
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
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: December, 2010
Pages: 278
Weight: 413g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Neurology, Psychiatry
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