RT Journal
A1 Cohen S
T1 CLinical neuropsychiatry
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1986
FD March 28
VO 255
IS 12
SP 1637
OP 1637
DO 10.1001/jama.1986.03370120115037
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1986.03370120115037
AB This book could easily have been called "Differential Diagnosis in Clinical Neuropsychiatry," for it describes and considers the causes of the varieties of mental dysfunctions. It is particularly suitable for the psychiatrist and psychologist because it approaches mental disorders from a neurological viewpoint, reminding us, and in many instances teaching us, that psychiatric illness can be mimicked by many neuroanatomic disorders.The volume is full of tables, perhaps a hundred, which sort out the multiple etiologies of psychic states: depersonalization, hallucinations, delusions, depressions, and so forth. In addition, the neurological aspects of schizophrenia, mood, and personality disorders are clarified.At times there is room for disagreement. Is "writer's cramp" more likely to be a segmental dystonia, a learned disturbance of behavior, or a simple phobia? The author is more inclined to think of it as a focal dystonia that may progress to a generalized dystonia musculorum deformans in some cases.