Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

This is the long-awaited successor to Jeffrey Cummings' classic work, Clinical Neuropsychiatry, published in 1985. That book represented an integration of behavioral neurology and biological psychiatry into a single volume devoted to explicating brain-behavior relationships. It was clinically oriented and intended for practitioners caring for patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. The new title reflects the authors' effort to link the recent explosion of new information from neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, genetics, neuropharmacology, neuropathology, and neuroimaging to the clinical descriptions. Yet the clinical emphasis of its predecessor has been maintained. Each chapter has a consistent approach and the book as whole provides a practical, easy-to-use synthesis of clinical advice and basic science. The volume is enhanced by 4-color images throughout. It is intended for students, residents, fellows, and practitioners of neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience. It will also be of interest to individuals in neuroimaging.

Cummings (psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, UCLA) and Mega (neuroimaging, UCLA) present this successor to Cummings' 1985 text, Clinical Neuropsychiatry, combining behavioral neurology and biological psychiatry into a single volume. The clinical emphasis of the 1985 text has been maintained by linking new findings from the past two decades in the fields of neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, genetics, neuropharmacology, neuropathology, and neuroimaging with the clinical descriptions. Illustrated with b&w and four-color images. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

both at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine