Revision Notes in Psychiatry

✍ Scribed by Basant K. Puri, Anne D. Hall

• Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 612
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A review text which includes both the basic sciences and the clinical aspects of Psychiatry. For this second edition the note-form approach has been applied more consistently, and the text is updated throughout to include the latest advances in the neurosciences and in therapeutics. The imaging, neurochemistry, neurophysiology and organic psychiatry sections have been expanded to ensure consistent coverage of the exam-relevant material.

✦ Table of Contents

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface to the second edition......Page 8
Preface to the first edition......Page 10
1 Basic psychology......Page 12
2 Social psychology......Page 60
3 Neuropsychological processes......Page 68
4 Human growth and development......Page 74
5 Psychological assessment......Page 100
6 Principles of evaluation and psychometrics......Page 116
7 Social sciences......Page 140
8 Descriptive psychopathology......Page 158
9 Psychoanalytic theories......Page 170
10 Neuroanatomy......Page 182
11 Neuropathology......Page 204
12 Neuroimaging techniques......Page 218
13 Neurophysiology......Page 222
14 Neurochemistry......Page 236
15 General principles of psychopharmacology......Page 246
16 Pharmacokinetics......Page 254
17 Pharmacodynamics......Page 262
18 Adverse drug reactions......Page 270
19 Genetics......Page 284
20 Epidemiology......Page 298
21 Medical ethics and principles of law......Page 306
22 Legal aspects of psychiatric care......Page 312
23 Classification......Page 320
24 Physical therapies......Page 328
25 Organic psychiatry......Page 338
26 Psychoactive substance use disorders......Page 344
27 Schizophrenia and delusional (paranoid) disorders......Page 378
28 Mood disorders, suicide and parasuicide......Page 398
29 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders......Page 416
30 Disorders specific to women......Page 438
31 Sexual disorders......Page 452
32 Sleep disorders......Page 470
33 Personality disorders......Page 476
34 Child and adolescent psychiatry......Page 494
35 Learning disability......Page 508
36 Eating disorders......Page 516
37 Cross-cultural psychiatry......Page 530
38 Old-age psychiatry......Page 540
39 Forensic psychiatry......Page 580
Appendix 1......Page 586
Appendix 2......Page 590
A......Page 592
B......Page 593
C......Page 594
D......Page 596
E......Page 597
F......Page 598
H......Page 599
I......Page 600
M......Page 601
N......Page 603
P......Page 604
R......Page 607
S......Page 608
T......Page 610
W......Page 611
Z......Page 612