Around the world societies are facing growing aging populations with the concomitant increase in neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropsychiatric disorders are organic brain diseases with psychiatric symptoms, as in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia, amnesic syndrome, and personality-behavioral changes. As a clinical science, neuropsychiatry aims to explore the complex interrelationship between behavior and brain function from a variety of perspectives, including those of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry. This concise and updated monograph comprises the latest findings in the field and includes chapters on delusional symptoms, mood disorders and neurotic symptoms, cognitive impairment, behavioral and personality changes, and recently, cerebral alterations revealed in PTSD patients and in endogenous psychoses through neuroimaging and neuropathology. These findings will certainly widen the realm of neuropsychiatry going forward and will prove of great value to specialists as well as to academics and trainees in neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and clinical genetics. Ultimately, neuropsychiatry aims to prevent and reduce the suffering of individuals with the psychiatric symptoms of cerebral disorders.

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Clinical Manifestations of Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Neuropsychiatric Syndromes.- ThyroidBrain Interactions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Lack of Insight and Awareness in Schizophrenia and Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Visual Hallucinations in Neurodegenerative Disorders.- Organic Delusional Syndrome: Tentative Neuropsychological Mechanism of Delusions.- Neurological and Psychological Forms of Amnesia.- Seizure Disorders.- The Neuropsychological Aspect of Epilepsy.- The Interictal Dysphoric Disorder of Epilepsy.- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Seizure Disorders with Special Reference to the Amygdala.- Traumatic Brain Injury.- Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury During Acute Neurorehabilitation*.- Vascular and Inflammatory Disorders.- Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Vascular Cognitive Impairment.- Neuropsychiatric Complications of Cerebrovascular Disease.- Systemic Inflammation and Cognition in the Elderly.- Neurodegenerative Disorders.- Diagnosis and Clinical Relevance of Depression and Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease.- Cognitive Decline and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.- Alzheimer's Disease in Japan: Current Situation and Issues of the Care for Persons with Dementia.- AD-FTLD Spectrum: New Understanding of the Neurodegenerative Process from the Study of Risk Genes.- Dementia with Lewy Bodies.- Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson Disease with Dementia Within the Spectrum of Lewy Body Disease.- Clinicopathological Characterization of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.- Diffuse Neurofibrillary Tangles with Calcification.- Topics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders.- Ayahuasca: Current Interest in an Ancient Ritual.- The Molecular Genetics of Suicide.- International Neuropsychiatric Association.- Brief History and Current Status of theInternational Neuropsychiatric Association.- Core Curriculum in Neuropsychiatry of the International Neuropsychiatric Association*.