As medical acuity increases and hospital stays shorten, psychiatric consultants must become adept at quickly recognizing neurological disorders comorbid with or manifesting as psychiatric and behavioral symptoms. Neuropsychiatric education has become essential for psychiatric competency.
Psychiatric Neurology: A Clinical Approach expands the educational resources available to psychiatric clinicians:
* Practical and up-to-date guidance on the evaluation and diagnosis of neurological disorders.
* How to perform a thorough neuropsychiatric examination, enhanced by links to 19 illustrative videos.
* Tips for using the neurodiagnostic laboratory
* Quick access differential diagnostic tables for issues commonly encountered in practice, including visual hallucinations, catatonia, aggression, new-onset psychosis, affective lability, apathy, and pain syndromes.
Contributions from more than 30 experts summarize neurological diagnoses and their neuropsychiatric presentations. The chapters, each structured around a clinical case example, focus on neurological disorders such as dementia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, brain tumors, sleep disorders, and neurovascular syndromes. Every chapter concludes with concise summary points as well as review questions and answers to reinforce the readers knowledge.
Valuable for both residents and experienced practitioners, Psychiatric Neurology is a rich source of information for psychiatric professionals navigating the demands and opportunities of clinical care.
Sheldon Benjamin, M.D., graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed psychiatry residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center, neurology residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Boston University, and Behavioral Neurology fellowship at the Boston Veterans Administration and Boston University. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of Neuropsychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School, where he served as Interim Chair of Psychiatry from 2017 to 2020, and Vice Chair for Education and Director of the UMass Chan Psychiatry Residency Program for 25 years before stepping down and transitioning to Associate Director. He founded the combined neurology/psychiatry residency program at UMass Chan Medical School and served as its co-director from 1997 to 2020, when he became Associate Director. He has served as President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training and the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He currently serves as secretary of the International Neuropsychiatric Association and serves on the Psychiatry Review Committee of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and on the board of directors of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Benjamin has taught neuropsychiatry to psychiatry residents for 40 years.
Kathy Niu, M.D., graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and then completed the Combined Neurology/Psychiatry Residency at UMass Chan Medical School. Previously on the faculty of the Duke University and Vanderbilt University medical schools, she has served in roles including Psychiatry Clerkship Director and Co-Director of a Brain, Behavior, and Movement course for medical students. She started working on this textbook while at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and completed it at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where she now serves as the Program Director of the Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency and practices in both the psychiatry and neurology departments.
