Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Around the world societies are facing
growing aging populations with the concomitant increase in
neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropsychiatric disorders are organic brain
diseases with psychiatric symptoms, as in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
diseases, that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia, amnesic
syndrome, and personality–behavioral changes. As a clinical science,
neuropsychiatry aims to explore the complex interrelationship between
behavior and brain function from a variety of perspectives, including
those of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry. This concise and updated
monograph comprises the latest findings in the field and includes
chapters on delusional symptoms, mood disorders and neurotic symptoms,
cognitive impairment, behavioral and personality changes, and recently,
cerebral alterations revealed in PTSD patients and in endogenous
psychoses through neuroimaging and neuropathology. These findings will
certainly widen the realm of neuropsychiatry going forward and will
prove of great value to specialists as well as to academics and trainees
in neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroradiology,
neuropathology, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and clinical genetics.
Ultimately, neuropsychiatry aims to prevent and reduce the suffering of
individuals with the psychiatric symptoms of cerebral disorders.