Neuropsychiatry Books

New and Published Books

1. Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy

   Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan

   Edited by Ritva Laaksonen, Mervi Ranta

   This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological knowledge with recent conceptualizations from neuroscience and psychotherapy, with special emphasis on...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior

   The Pharmacology of Drug Use Disorders, 2nd Edition

   By John Brick, Carlton K. Erickson

   Explore the brain and discover the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence. The authors, research scientists with years of experience in alcohol and drug studies, provide definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Vulnerability to Psychosis

   From Neurosciences to Psychopathology

   Edited by Paolo Fusar-Poli, Stefan J. Borgwardt, Philip McGuire

   Series: Maudsley Series

   Early clinical intervention in psychosis is now a major objective of mental health services and the development of specialist intervention services has greatly facilitated research on the early phases of this disorder. In this book, contributors provide a review of the neurobiological research in...

   Published February 19th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. Delusion and Confabulation

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Robyn Langdon, Martha Turner

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   People with psychiatric and neurological illness sometimes say and think the most amazing things. They might believe they are dead; claim to see, despite being blind; or "remember" things that never happened. Historical demarcations between academic disciplines dictate that these are distinct...

   Published April 20th 2010 by Psychology Press
5. Genes, Cognition and Neuropsychiatry

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Brita Elvevåg, Daniel Weinberger

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Neuropsychiatry stands to benefit enormously from the new research framework afforded by the sequencing of the human genome and from examining the role of molecular genetics on the clinical presentation of psychiatric patients. A solid foundation is essential if novel genetic breakthroughs are to...

   Published September 8th 2009 by Psychology Press
6. The Behavioural and Emotional Complications of Traumatic Brain Injury

   By Simon F. Crowe

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   It is difficult to imagine what it must be like for someone following the personal crisis and catastrophe that ensues as a result of a serious traumatic brain injury (TBI). The individual is confronted with a huge range of alterations in his or her normal functioning, operating at the...

   Published February 27th 2008 by Psychology Press
7. The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Emotion and Emotional Disorders

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by André Aleman, Nick Medford, Anthony S. David

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Recent years have shown an increased interest in the cognitive and neural basis of emotion in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Indeed, various methods of behavioural and neural measurement of emotional processes are continually being developed and refined, which has led to an explosion of...

   Published May 31st 2006 by Psychology Press
8. Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Sean A Spence, Professor Anthony S David

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   For millennia, human beings have reported hearing ‘voices’. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper, the impact of voices upon human society has...

   Published August 3rd 2005 by Psychology Press
9. Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Anthony David, Sean Spence

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper the impact of voices upon human society has...

   Published March 3rd 2004 by Psychology Press
10. Pathologies of Body, Self and Space

    A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

    Edited by Peter W Halligan, Sean Spence

    Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

    What happens when the physical body and the subjective sense of self part company? How do we explain phantom limbs and alien abduction? What are the cognitive, neurobiological mechanisms that support such phenomena? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Spence and Halligan explore all...

    Published September 4th 2002 by Psychology Press