Psychiatry an Evidence Based Text

Part 1: The foundations of modern psychiatric practice History of psychiatry Introduction to Evidence-based medicine History and philosophy science Research methods and statistics Epidemiology How to practice evidence-based medicine Psychological assessment and psychometrics Part 2: Developmental, behavioural and socio-cultural psychiatry Human development Introduction to Basic psychology Awareness Stress Emotion Information processing and attention Learning Theory Motivation Perception Memory Language and thought Personality Social psychology Social science and socio-cultutral psychiatry Cultural psychiatry Part 3: Neuroscience Neuroanatomy Basic concepts in neurophysiology Neurophysiology of Integrated behaviour Neurogenesis and cerebralplasticity The neuroendocrine system The Neurophysiology of arousal and sleep The electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential studies (EPS) Neurochemistry Neuropathology Neuroimaging Genetics Part 4: Mental health problems and mental illness Classification and diagnostic systems: ICD-10, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-V Cognitive assessment Neurology for Psychiatrists Organic disorders Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses Mood disorders/affective psychoses Neuroses Hypochondriasis Eating disorders Personality disorders Perinatal psychiatry: clinical features, epidemiology, aetiology Psychosexual medicine Gender identity disorders Paraphilias and sex offendors Psychiatric assessment of physical illness Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes Mental health problems: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Mental health problems in ME, fibromyalgia Pain and psychiatry Sleep and sleep disorders Suicide and deliberate self-harm Emergency psychiatry Care of the dying and bereaved Part 5: Approaches to treatment Clinical psychopharmacology ECT rTMS & VNS Psychotherapy: Introduction Dynamic psychotherapy Family therapy Marital therapy Group therapy CBT Other individual psychotherapies Therapuetic communities Effectiveness of

Professor Basant Puri, Honorary Consultant in Imaging and Psychiatry, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK Ian Treasaden, Head of Forensic Neurosciences, Lipid Neuroscience Group and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Imperial College and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London UK

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