Overview: Delivery of Health Care and Socioeconomic Issues Robert J. Gumnit Josemir W. Sander Simon D. Shorvon Introduction As medical care becomes more sophisticated and thus more expensive, people and…
Nonaffective Psychoses, Schizophrenia, and Schizophrenia-like Psychoses Michael R. Trimble Bettina Schmitz Introduction In this chapter, in contrast to Chapter 204, we consider the clinical occasions in which some of the…
Obsessive-compulsive Behavior Mark S. George Marco Mula Introduction The neuropsychiatric syndrome of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was discovered and described >150 years ago. Unfortunately, for many years, OCD was thought to…
Panic Disorder and Hyperventilation Syndrome Alan B. Ettinger Jonathan M. Bird Andres M. Kanner Introduction Panic disorder and hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) are frequently underrecognized conditions that are easily mistaken for…
Dissociative Disorders Richard J. Brown Michael R. Trimble Introduction Within the context of psychiatry and neurology, the term dissociation is extremely difficult to define satisfactorily. Since its introduction in the…
Episodic Dyscontrol Ludger Tebartz van Elst Michael R. Trimble Introduction Episodic dyscontrol (ED) is a rare but severe form of human aggressive behavior. The following case report illustrates the phenomenology…
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures Andres M. Kanner W. Curt LaFrance Jr. Tim Betts Introduction It has been known since the earliest recorded medical writings51,100,141,148 that not all seizures in humans are…
Overview: Psychiatric Disturbances Michael R. Trimble Introduction This section is dedicated to the many thousands, probably millions, of people who still receive an erroneous diagnosis of epilepsy, even several years…
Nonepileptic Neurologic Paroxysmal Disorders and Episodic Symptoms in Infants Natalio Fejerman Introduction Misdiagnosis of epileptic seizures in young children is frequent and generally due to considering various paroxysmal or episodic…
Sensory Disorders Carl W. Bazil Introduction Because partial seizures can begin anywhere in the cerebral cortex, their manifestations are diverse, and because large portions of the cortex are devoted to…
