Handbook of Psychiatric Diagnostic Procedures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Electrophysiologic Diagnostic Tests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xv-xv

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   2. Clinical Electroencephalography as an Assessment Method in Psychiatric Practice

      • Frederick A. Struve

      Pages 1-48

   3. Sleep Electroencencephalography

      • Ismet Karacan, Robert L. Williams

      Pages 49-71

   4. Identification of Melancholia Using EEG Studies of Sleep

      • Michael Feinberg

      Pages 73-79

   5. Tests of Psychomotor Function

      • John F. Greden

      Pages 81-96

   6. Evoked Potentials

      • Maurice Rappaport

      Pages 97-135

   7. Special Electrophysiological Tests: Brain Spiking, EEG Spectral Coherence

      • Bernard Saltzberg

      Pages 137-150

3. Radiologic Tests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. The Role of X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT)

      • Daniel R. Weinberger

      Pages 153-168

4. Laboratory Evaluation for Special Groups of Patients

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. The Alcoholic Patient

      • Dennis G. Low, Thomas P. Beresford, Richard C. W. Hall

      Pages 171-180

   3. The Patient with Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia

      • William L. Webb

      Pages 181-196

   4. The Provisional Diagnosis of Dementia: Three Phases of Evaluation

      • Michael K. Popkin, Thomas B. Mackenzie

      Pages 197-211

   5. The Comprehensive Evaluation of Cocaine and Opiate Abusers

      • Mark S. Gold, Todd W. Estroff

      Pages 213-230

   6. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient

      • Alvin J. Levenson, Suha A. Beller

      Pages 231-236

   7. Diagnostic Approaches to Sexuality in the Medically Ill

      • Thomas N. Wise, Chester W. Schmidt Jr.

      Pages 237-272

   8. Laboratory Assessment of the Paraphilias and Their Treatment with Antiandrogenic Medication

      • Fred S. Berlin, Frederick W. Schaerf

      Pages 273-305

5. Future Directions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. The Endorphins

      • Steven R. Gambert

      Pages 309-318

The first volume of this Handbook discussed neuroendocrine diagnostic tests and the diagnostic use of central nervous system amine metabolites. That volume further reviewed the toxicological evaluation of patients and the laboratory evalua­ tion of treatment outcome. It suggested a system for evaluating newly admitted psychiatric patients and dermed the scope of diagnostic procedures available in the emergency department. Volume II focuses on the use and interpretation of electro physiologic and radiologic diagnostic tests in psychiatry and then explores the laboratory evaluation of special groups of patients. The clinical sections of this volume are designed to assist the physician in in­ stituting a proper workup for specific patients and defining tests which will assist them in the differential diagnosis of various psychiatric disorders. Such workups are critical to exclude possible organic disorders which can present with psychia­ tric symptoms. The workup suggested for the various classes of patients will assist the clini­ cian with differential diagnosis, provide base-line information for long-term follow­ up, delineate biological perimeters at the beginning of treatment, protect the pa­ tient from unrecognized cardiac, renal, hepatic, or endocrine disorders which could be adversely affected by the administration of medications, and provide a rational sequencing of workup for particular disorders to insure the most thorough yet cost­ efficient approach to the patient.

• Anorexia nervosa
• brain
• dementia
• diagnosis
• electroencephalography (EEG)
• nervous system
• psychiatric disorder
• psychiatry
• sexuality
• treatment

• Psychiatric Programs, Florida Hospital, Orlando, USA

  Richard C. W. Hall

• University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Richard C. W. Hall

• Monarch Health Corporation, Massachusetts, USA

  Richard C. W. Hall

• Psychiatry Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, USA

  Thomas P. Beresford

• University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, USA

  Thomas P. Beresford

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