Table of Contents

Evolution of neuropsychiatric ideas in US and UK - 1800-2000; neuropsychiatric evaluation; neuropsychology; neuroimaging for neuropsychiatry; clinical neurophysiology in neuropsychiatry; autonomic nervous system; functional neuroanatomy of the limbic system and prefrontal cortex; neurochemical neuroanatomy; psychoneuroendocrinology; psychoneuroimmunology - interactions between the brain and the immune system; drug treatment in neuropsychiatry; neurobiological mechanisms of human anxiety; neuropsychiatry of mood disorders; hallucinations and delusional thinking; neuropyschiatric aspects of the schizophrenias; perceptual disturbances in focal neurological diseases; memory; emotional disorders associated with hemispheric dysfunction; frontal lobe lesions; pain transmission and modulation; neuropathic pain; pain and psychopathology; neuropsychiatry of suicide; the neuropsychiatry of aggression; neuropsychiatry of mental retardation and cerebral palsy; autism and pervasive developmental disorders; transient disorders of memory and consciousness; somatization and conversion disorders; neurobiology of drug abuse; neuropsychiatry of alcohol and drug abuse; language and neuropsychiatry; neuropsychiatric aspects of sexual dysfunction; psychiatric aspects of epilepsy; basal ganglia diseases; Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder; cortical dementia; neurobehavioural features of cerebrovascular disease; neurobehavioural aspects of cerebral white matter disorders; trauma; neuromuscular diseases; behavioural syndromes in neurotoxicology; assessment of the brain in legal cases - neuropsychologic and neuropsychiatric considerations; the neuropsychiatry of disability and rehabilitation; current diagnostic issues in neuropsychiatry.