
The Neuropsychiatric Mental Status Examination
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The Neuropsychiatric Mental Status Examination is a guidebook for clinical psychiatric diagnosis. The title introduces the language, technique and concepts of the phenomenology. The first part of the text covers the basic phenomenology principles; the major areas of concern in mental health diagnosis; methodology for effective diagnosis of mental pathology. Part II elaborates the topics in Part I; this part develops and reinforces the techniques, phenomenological principles of diagnosis, diagnostic criteria. The second part also presents data which aid in the delineation of metal disorders. The book will be of great interest to students of behavioral science related degrees. The text will also serve professional psychologists and psychiatrists as a reference.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I
Basic Concepts
Interview Considerations
General Appearance, Motor Behavior and Catatonia
Affect
Language Function (Thought Process)
Delusions (Apophany)
Perception and First Rank Symptoms
Cognitive Function
Frontal Lobe Cognitive Dysfunction
Verbal Memory
Parietal Lobe Function
Language Disorder
Review Section
Clinical Evaluations
Phenomenologic Mental Status Outline
Cognitive Function Evaluation Outline
References
Part II
Introduction
Diagnosis
Major Affective Disorder
Schizophrenia
Diagnostic Criteria-Summary
Coarse Brain Disease
Frontal Lobe Syndromes
Temporal Lobe Syndrome
Parietal Lobe Syndromes
Anxiety States (DSM-III Term: Anxiety Disorders)
Minor Depression (DSM-III Term: Dysthymic Disorder)
Obsessional Conditions
Hysteria (DSM-III Term: Somatoform Disorders)
Sociopathy (DSM-III Term: Antisocial Personality Disorder)
Alcoholism
Clinical Evaluations
References
Product details
- No. of pages: 528
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Pergamon 1981
- Published: January 1, 1981
- Imprint: Pergamon
- eBook ISBN: 9781483182452
About the Author
Michael Alan Taylor
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