The explosive growth in the neurosciences—growth that prompted the 2002 publication of the timely fourth edition of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences—continues unabated. To make this vital information more accessible to residents and practitioners alike, the editors have created a unique Essentials volume based on that acclaimed textbook.

The Essentials is approximately half the 1,400 pages of the complete Textbook's fourth edition. As such, it functions as a subspecialty reference that details assessment techniques and the full range of treatments available for patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. Like the tremendously successful fourth edition, this abridged version stands out because of its impressive clinical utility and practicality and because of the singular expertise of its preeminent chapter authors.

With 20 chapters written by 46 of today's leading clinicians and researchers in neuropsychiatry, this concise reference focuses on the key principles of diagnosis and treatment of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. Like its parent textbook, it includes

• An extensively revised and expanded chapter on the neuropsychiatric aspects of delirium
• An ambitious (and new to the fourth edition of the Textbook) section about the clinical relevance of drug-induced delirium
• A detailed, in-depth index

This volume begins with assessment (bedside neuropsychiatry, evaluation, clinical and functional imaging), and continues through symptomatologies (delirium, aphasia, memory and amnesia), disorders (traumatic brain injury; seizure, sleep, and cerebrovascular disorders; brain tumors; ethanol and other chemical dependencies; Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses; schizophrenia; mood and affective disorders; anxiety disorders; and disorders of childhood and adolescence), and treatments (psychopharmacologic, cognitive, and behavioral).

Remarkably relevant and practical, this Essentials volume in clinical neurosciences joins an elite group of textbooks that comprise the core curricula of psychiatry and neurology residencies. It will also prove to be an invaluable resource for psychiatry and neurology residents preparing to take the daunting ABPN certification examination.

Reviews
“As the field of neuropsychiatry has grown more and more sophisticated, The Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences has become the field's nearly perfect mirror and companion. In that same mode, the Essentials of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is clearly the most efficient yet comprehensive way to learn the basics as well as what is cutting edge in the burgeoning field of neuropsychiatry. Here we have everything from important information on how to conduct a thorough neuropsychiatric evaluation, to everything that is known about delirium and dementia, to the most recent developments in neuroimaging. The Essentials is indispensable for anyone practicing psychiatry and its many related fields today.”—Jack M. Gorman, M.D., Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

“Essentials of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences is an invaluable resource. Based on the larger textbook, this volume contains just the right amount of essential information; although only Chapter 1 is titled ‘Bedside Neuropsychiatry,’ the content of the entire book provides critical guidance to the clinician at the bedside or in the consulting room.”—John M. Oldham, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina; Executive Director, Institute of Psychiatry, Charleston, South Carolina

“The book is very well done, well written, and well edited, a major success for a multiauthored work that has a most ambitious goal: nothing less than the presentation of the neuroscientific basis of psychiatry. The book has been written by clinicians for clinicians. No neurologist or psychiatrist can afford not to own this book.”—Jonathan Pincus, M.D., The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, August 2004