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by M.D. Sheldon Benjamin, M.D. Kathy Niu

Psychiatric Neurology: A Clinical Approach is an indispensable guide for clinicians navigating the intersection of neurology and psychiatry. In the current practice environment, psychiatric professionals are increasingly called on to recognize neurological disorders presenting with psychiatric and behavioral symptoms—often in medically complex patients during ever-shorter hospital stays. This detailed volume empowers practitioners with strategies for conducting neuropsychiatric examinations, short videos demonstrating examination techniques, tips for using the neurodiagnostic laboratory, and approaches to differential diagnoses for commonly encountered issues such as visual hallucinations, catatonia, apathy, affective lability, new-onset psychosis, aggression and pain syndromes. Expert contributors distill critical knowledge on the neurological disorders most likely to be encountered by psychiatric clinicians, including dementia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, brain tumors, neurodevelopmental disabilities, headache, toxic states; and autoimmune, functional neurological, movement, infectious, sleep and neurovascular disorders. Each chapter is anchored by a compelling clinical vignette, moving from presentation to resolution, and reinforced by summary points and review questions for self-assessment. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book adds to the educational resources available to both trainees and experienced clinicians, equipping them to meet the challenges and opportunities of today's