Brain Injury and Mental Retardation is ideal for those caring for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mental retardation (MR) syndromes.

Brain Injury and Mental Retardation is tailored to the psychiatric disorders relevant to these specific patient populations.

Contents

1. Brain Injury
2. Perinatal and Pediatric Brain Injury
3. Mental Retardation
4. Mechanisms of Brain Injury
5. Evaluation of the Neuropsychiatric Patient
6. Transient Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury
7. The Static Neurobehavioral Syndromes
8. Delayed Neurobehavioral Sequelae of Brain Injury
9. Psychiatric Disorders in Mentally Retarded People
10. Disorders of Behavior
11. The Pathobehavioral Syndromes
12. Disorders of Eating, Drinking, and Sleeping
13. Disorders of the X and Y Chromosomes
14. Autism
15. The Problem of Self-Injurious Behavior
16. Self-Injurious Behavior II: The Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
17. Epilepsy
18. Psychostimulants, Dopamine Agonists, and Amantadine
19. Antidepressants
20. The Psychotropic Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs
21. Lithium Salts
22. Anxiolytics and Antipsychotics
23. Tardive Dyskinesia and Tardive Akathisia
24. Extraterritorial Psychotropics
25. Cognitive Enhancers and Neuroprotectants
26. The Problem of Drug Treatment in Neuropsychiatry

Index

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