Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
Part 1: IMAGING TECHNIQUES
Chapter 1. BLOOD FLOW IMAGING OF THE BRAIN: 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE
Chapter 2. FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING: APPLICATION TO POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Chapter 3. ECSTASY IN THE BRAIN: A MODEL FOR NEUROIMAGING
Chapter 4. THE FUTURE FOR DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY
Chapter 5. CORTICAL INHIBITION IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
Chapter 6. APPLICATION OF MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY TO THE STUDY OF AUTISM
Chapter 7. APPLICATIONS OF XENON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: DETECTION OF HIDDEN LESIONS
Chapter 8. NEW TECHNIQUES FOR UNDERSTANDING HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Part 2: SPECIFIC DISEASES
Chapter 9. SUDDEN ONSET PANIC: EPILEPTIC AURA OR PANIC DISORDER?
Chapter 10. BIPOLAR DISORDER: IMAGING STATE VERSUS TRAIT
Chapter 11. BLAST-RELATED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: WHAT IS KNOWN?
Chapter 12. MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: NEUROIMAGING OF SPORTS-RELATED CONCUSSION
Chapter 13. TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY: NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO EVOLUTION AND IDENTIFICATION
Chapter 14. FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AS A WINDOW TO DEMENTIA: CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION
Chapter 15. METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY: A MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOSIS
Chapter 16. IDENTIFICATION OF HIV-ASSOCIATED PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY
Chapter 17. THE EXPANDING ROLE OF IMAGING IN PRION DISEASE
Chapter 18. APPLICATIONS OF FUNCTIONAL IMAGING TO CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
Chapter 19. BINSWANGER'S DISEASE: AN ONGOING CONTROVERSY
Chapter 20. NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS: SIGNIFICANCE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN A POTENTIALLY TREATABLE DEMENTIA
Chapter 21. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Part 3: ANATOMY AND CIRCUITRY
Chapter 22. FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF SLEEP AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION
Chapter 23. NEURAL UNDERPINNINGS OF FEAR AND ITS MODULATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS
Chapter 24. RABIES AND THE CEREBELLUM: NEW METHODS FOR TRACING CIRCUITS IN THE BRAIN
Chapter 25. CONVERSION HYSTERIA: LESSONS FROM FUNCTIONAL IMAGING
Chapter 26. THE LIMBIC THALAMUS
Chapter 27. UNDERSTANDING EMOTION REGULATION IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: CONTRIBUTIONS OF NEUROIMAGING
Chapter 28. FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF CENTRAL PAIN
Chapter 29. AN UPDATE ON ESTROGEN: HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTION, RECEPTOR MAPPING, NEUROTROPHIC EFFECTS
Part 4: TREATMENT
Chapter 30. PREDICTING TREATMENT RESPONSE IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
Chapter 31. SCHIZOPHRENIA: WHAT'S UNDER THE MICROSCOPE?
Chapter 32. SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: IMPACT OF IMAGING
INDEX

About the Author

Robin A. Hurley, M.D., is Associate Chief of Staff at the W.G. "Bill" Hefner VAMC in Salisbury, North Carolina, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Katherine H. Taber, Ph.D., is a Research Health Scientist at the W.G. "Bill" Hefner VAMC in Salisbury, North Carolina, and Research Professor in the Division of Biomedical Sciences at the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Reviews

This book is a" must have" collection of 32 chapters, each only 5 to 10 pages long, packed full if numerous colorful imaging that bring light different imaging techniques used ti answer specific questions related to understanding the pathophysiology, diagnostic specificity, and treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders. The journal of Nervous and Mental Disease