Neurology for Psychiatrists

Neurology is a complex and sophisticated branch of medicine with extensive overlap with psychiatry. The majority of diseases affecting the brain could equally be treated by psychiatrists or neurologists, for instance epilepsy, movement disorders, dementias, head injury, sleep disorders, and many more. An understanding of the basic principles of neurology is increasingly acknowledged to be a necessity for psychiatrists today. This volume, written from a joint neurological-psychiatric standpoint, covers all the basic neurology relevant to psychiatrists and presents the basis of psychiatric disorders in terms of neurochemistry and their pharmacological management.