The Medical Basis of Psychiatry

Section I Syndromes - Adult1. The mental status examinationHagop S. Akiskal ...........................................................................2. Syndromes of brain dysfunction presenting with cognitive impairmentor behavioral disturbance: delirium, dementia, and mental disorders dueto a general medical conditionKeith Isenberg, Keith Garcia .............................................................3. The amnestic syndromeHillel Grossman ............................................................................4. Bipolar illnessPaula J. Clayton ...........................................................................5. Major depressive disorderDavid L. Dunner ...........................................................................6. SchizophreniaS. Hossein Fatemi .........................................................................7. Schizoaffective and schizophreniform disordersWilliam Coryell ............................................................................8. Delusional disordersRaymond R. Crowe, Marc-Andre Roy ..................................................9. Anxiety disordersRichard Shelton, Aaron J. Hunt .........................................................10. Obsessive-compulsive disorderTanya K. Murphy, Sarah Frazier, Soo-Jeong Kim ....................................11. Somatoform and dissociative disordersC. Robert Cloninger, Mehmet Dokucu ..................................................12. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaElke Eckert ....................................................................................13. Antisocial personality disordersKaren Derefinko, Thomas A.Widiger .....................................................................14. AlcoholismJames C. Garbutt .............................................................................15. Drug addictionJoseph J. Westermeyer, Gihyun Yoon ......................................................16. Sexual Disorders: Dysfunction, Gender Identity

Norman Sartorius, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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