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Global Emergency of Mental Disorders

  • 1st Edition - May 18, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jahangir Moini, Justin Koenitzer, Anthony LoGalbo
  • Language: English

Global Emergency of Mental Disorders is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read overview of the neurodevelopmental basis of multiple mental disorders and their accompanying consequen… Read more

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Description

Global Emergency of Mental Disorders is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read overview of the neurodevelopmental basis of multiple mental disorders and their accompanying consequences, including addiction, suicide and homelessness. Compared to other references that examine the treatment of psychiatric disorders, this book uniquely focuses on their neurodevelopment. It is designed for neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology students, and various other clinical professions. With chapters on anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and others, this volume provides information about incidence, prevalence and mortality rates in addition to developmental origins. With millions worldwide affected, this book will be an invaluable resource.

Key features

  • Explores psychiatric disorders from a neurodevelopmental perspective
  • Covers multiple disorders, including anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Examines the brain mechanisms that underly disorders
  • Addresses the opioid epidemic and suicide
  • Reviews special patient populations by gender and age

Readership

Graduate students in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and biological and biomedical sciences. A wide range of academic and professional disciplines (scientist, clinicians, students, and professionals)

Table of contents

Part I: Introduction1. Overview of Brain Function2. Brain Neurotransmitters3. Normal Child and Adolescent Development4. Global Epidemiology of Mental Disorders

Part II: Psychiatric Disorders5. Anxiety Disorders6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders7. Dissociative Disorders8. Depressive Disorders9. Bipolar and Related Disorders10. Personality Disorders11. Schizophrenic Disorders12. Sexuality, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilias13. Substance-Related Disorders14. Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders15. Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders16. Eating Disorders17. Sleep-Wake Disorders

Part III: Caring for Special Populations18. Children and Adolescents19. Women20. Older Adults

Part IV: Contemporary Global Crises21. The Opioid Epidemic22. Suicides and Homicides23. The Homelessness Crisis

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 19, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Jahangir Moini

Dr. Moini is an international author of 38 medical textbooks for various publishers including Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Jones & Bartlett Learning, Cengage Learning, and Routledge. In addition to continuing his venture as an author, he has been a professor for over 40 years. He is a retired professor with the Eastern Florida State College Science & Health Department. Previously, Dr. Moini was an assistant professor at Tehran University Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. For 18 years, he was the Director of Epidemiology for the Brevard County Health Department. He was also Director of Allied Health at Everest University for 15 years.
Affiliations and expertise
Retired Professor, Science and Health Department, Eastern Florida State College, FL, USA

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Justin Koenitzer

Justin C. Koenitzer, Psy.D. earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and his doctoral degree from Florida Institute of Technology, with specialized training in neuropsychology and behavioral medicine. He completed his clinical internship in the neuropsychology specialty track at Eastern Virginia Medical School, followed by a two-year residency in neuropsychology. He has taught various courses in psychology and clinical psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Koenitzer has been working as a clinical psychologist at the Orlando VA Healthcare System for the past 8 years. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Koenitzer’s current research interests are in the areas of performance validity, dementia, and neurocognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Psychologist, Orlando Veterans Administration Healthcare System, FL, USA

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Anthony LoGalbo

Dr. LoGalbo is a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Florida, where he teaches graduate coursework and conducts applied research in the clinical psychology (PsyD) program. He is also the clinical director and primary supervisor of Florida Tech's Sports Concussion Management Program, and the clinical neuropsychology director at the Health First Florida Memory Disorder Clinic. Previously, he was in clinical practice at Florida Hospital (AdventHealth) in Orlando, serving both inpatients and outpatients through the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. Educationally, he earned a PhD in medical/clinical psychology with a focus on neuropsychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, School of Psychology, FL, USA

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