Harris' Developmental Neuropsychiatry: The Interface with Cognitive and Social Neuroscience

Harris' Developmental Neuropsychiatry: The Interface with Cognitive and Social Neuroscience provides updated information to the first edition which was awarded Dewey's Medical Book of the Year. The outcome of many discussions with faculty members, residents, medical students, and nonmedical professionals over the past three decades at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital, this revamped second edition provides a comprehensive summary of knowledge and literature acquired through the authors' work with children and adolescents with developmental disorders and their families. This second edition features new material including epigenetics, social and affective neuroscience, updated DSM definitions and criteria for specific disorders, as well as all the latest genetics from the past 15 years. Harris' Developmental Neurospychiatry will be an invaluable resource for medical and graduate students.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Historical Landmarks In Developmental Neuropsychiatry Part I: Clinical Methods of Assessment and Examination in Developmental Neuropsychiatry 1. Assessment, Interview, and Behavior Rating 2. Neuropsychological Testing: Assessing The Mechanisms of Cognition And Complex Behavioral Functioning Part II: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 3. Attention 4. Emotion 5. Language 6. Memory 7. The Human Connectome 8. Consciousness Part III; Social Neuroscience 9. Attachment 10. Developmental Social Neuroscience 11. Attachment Security Disorders 12. Emergence of The Self 13. Temperament Part IV: Neurodevelopmental Disorders 14. Intellectual Developmental Disorder 15. Autism Spectrum Disorder 16. ADHD 17. Specific Learning Disorders 18. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 19. Challenging Behavior: Aggression and Self-Injury

About the Author :
James C Harris, MD received his BS from the University of Maryland, MD from George Washington Medical School, and completed residencies at L.A. Children's and Johns Hopkins Hospitals and a fellowship at Kennedy Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as Director of Developmental Neuropsychiatry at The Kennedy Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital (1976-92) and Director of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins (1978-82). He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1997. He has authored 109 scientific articles and chapters, five books and 148 Art and Images in Psychiatry. Joseph T Coyle, MD received his BA from Holy Cross College, MD from Johns Hopkins University and completed a pediatric internship and a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as the Director of Child Psychiatry at Hopkins (1982-91) and was appointed the Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School in 1991 and was also appointed the academic Chairman of Psychiatry (1991-2001). He has authored over 600 scientific articles and chapters and 13 books. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994).

Review :
As the number of individuals diagnosed with neuropsychiatric disorders continues to increase, this book is essential to the field.