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Textbook of Psychiatry

  • 2nd Edition - March 13, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ravi Gupta, Sai Krishna Tikka
  • Language: English

Textbook of Psychiatry meant for UG students is based on knowledge regarding psychiatric disorders and unfolds the neuroscientific foundation of the symptoms and their manage… Read more

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Textbook of Psychiatry meant for UG students is based on knowledge regarding psychiatric disorders and unfolds the neuroscientific foundation of the symptoms and their management. 53 chapters of this book are clubbed together into 13 sections and each section represents a super speciality in the field of psychiatry.

Key features

• Covers latest 2024 NMC and 2019 MCI CBME competencies meant for UG students
• Chapters written by authors specialised in that subject area from India and abroad
• Chapters contain case vignettes, illustrations, boxes, tables and flowcharts for easy understanding and for quick revision
• End of Chapter Take Home Points given
• Latest nomenclature, and Epidemiology (Global and Indian)
• Multiple Choice Questions with Answers
• AETCOM included

Table of contents

SECTION I BASICS OF PSYCHIATRY

1 Psychiatry an Emerging Neuroscience: Historical Perspectives
Vijay Krishnan | Ragul Ganesh

2 Stress and Psychological Models of Learning, Memory, Motivation and Personality
Ravi Gupta

3 History Taking
Jaya Nawani | Ashish Bhandari

4 Classifi cation of Psychiatric Disorders: Changing Concepts
Naresh Nebhinani | Deepika Biyyala

5 Investigations in Psychiatry—Laboratory
Sujit Sarkhel | Sumedha Roy

6 Investigations in Psychiatry: Psychological
Jyoti Mishra | Palak Upadhyay | Navneet Kaur

7 Electroencephalography and Evoked Response Potentials
Alankrit Jaiswal | Umesh S.

8 Epigenetics—Environment to Molecule
Adarsh Tripathi | Anamika Das
SECTION II CHILD PSYCHIATRY

9 Intellectual Disability
Indu Dubey

10 Specific Learning Disorders
Savita Malhotra | Akhilesh Sharma | Abhishek Verma

11 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Poornima Khadanga | Sakhardande Kasturi Atmaram | Eesha Sharma

12 Disruptive and Impulse Control Disorders
Sujita Kumar Kar | Pawan Sharma | SM Yasir Arafat

13 Elimination Disorders and Other Types of Feeding Disorders
Santanu Nath | Rajeev Ranjan

14 Autism Spectrum Disorders
Alex Porthukaran | Natasha Fernandes | Pushpal Desarkar

15 Tic Disorders
Ishita Desai | Niraj Kumar
SECTION III GENERAL ADULT PSYCHIATRY

16 Mood Disorders
Shobit Garg | Eshani Pandey | N. Srinivasan

17 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Sai Krishna Tikka | Mamidipalli Sai Spoorthy

18 Anxiety Disorders
Vaibhav Dubey | Mitali Soni Loya

19 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Biswa Ranjan Mishra | Tathagata Biswas | Sayali Mishra

20 Culture-Specific Disorders
Ravi Gupta

21 Stress-Related Disorders
Barikar C. Malathesh | Lakshmi P. Nirisha

22 Psychosexual Disorder
Shrayasi Das | Susmita Sarkar | Lokesh Kumar Singh

23 Gender-Related Disorders
Varun Mehta | Surendra Paliwal

24 Personality Disorders
Vijay Chandra Reddy | Shashidhara M | Raj Kiran Donthu

25 Eating Disorders
Srilakshmi Pingali | Sireesha Srinivas Rao | Jigyansa Ipsita Pattnaik

26 Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders
Ravi Gupta | Sangha Mitra Godi | Arvind Nongpiur


27 Dissociative and Conversion Disorders
Vijay Gogoi | Rachit Sharma
SECTION IV ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY

28 Neurobiology of Addiction
Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha | Shalini Kumari | Udit Kumar Panda

29 Substance Use Disorders
Christopher Peter | Sharad Philip | Aniruddha Basu

30 Behavioural Addictions
Swapnil Yadav | Swarndeep Singh | Yatan Pal Singh Balhara
SECTION V NEUROPSYCHIATRY

31 Neurocognitive Disorders
Siddharth Sarkar | Rahul Mathur

32 Autoimmune Encephalitis
Sayanti Ghosh | Malay Ghosal | Sandip Pal

33 Stroke: Psychiatric Sequelae
Vikram Singh Rawat | Krishna Prasad Muliyala | Ravikesh Tripathi

34 Epilepsy and its Neuropsychiatric Aspects
K L Vidya | Nishant Goyal
SECTION VI SLEEP MEDICINE

35 Sleep and its Disorders
Kaustav Kundu | Lokesh Kumar Saini | Ravi Gupta
SECTION VII HEADACHE MEDICINE

36 Headache Medicine
Ishita Desai | Niraj Kumar
SECTION VIII EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY

37 Emergency Psychiatry
Sandeep Grover | Chandrima Naskar
SECTION IX NONPHARMACOLOGICAL THERAPIES

38 Psychotherapy for Psychiatric Disorders
Priyadarshee Abhishek | Deyashini Lahiri Tikka

39 Electroconvulsive Therapy
Vanteemar S. Sreeraj | Preeti Sinha | Jagadisha Thirthalli

40 Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
Vishal Dhiman | Tanmay Joshi

SECTION X PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 415

41 Psychopharmacology: General Considerations
Sivapriya Vaidyanathan | Samir Kumar Praharaj

42 Treatment Adherence in Psychiatry
Sukanto Sarkar | Sukriti Mukherjee | Praveen V Raj | Aniruddha Basu

43 Placebo Effects: Neurobiology
Arghya Pal | Rashmi Shukla
SECTION XI CONSULTATION-LIAISON PSYCHIATRY

44 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: General Principles
Vikas Menon | Snehil Gupta | Ilambaridhi Balasubramanian

45 Gut-Brain Axis
Henal Shah | Sreelakshmi Vaidyanathan

46 Heart-Brain Axis
Sucharita Mishra | Aditya Somani

47 Psychoneuroimmunology
Alka Subramanyam | Sanam Panjabi | Mansi Somaiya
SECTION XII OTHER SPECIALITIES IN PSYCHIATRY

48 Geriatric Psychiatry
Tom Varghese M | Midhun Sidharthan | K S Shaji

49 Social Psychiatry
Sumegha Mittal | Rakesh Chadda

50 Community and Primary Care Psychiatry
Pratap Sharan | Rahul Mathur

51 Forensic Psychiatry
Priya Ranjan Avinash | Robin Victor | Anshu Prasad

52 Psychiatrist’s Role in Disaster Management
Damodaran Dinakaran | Narayana Manjunatha | C Naveen Kumar | Suresh Bada Math
SECTION XIII AETCOM COMPETENCIES

53 AETCOM Competencies in Psychiatry
Gita Neg | Nilima Shah | Daljit Kaur

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2024
  • Language: English