Textbook of Psychiatry
- 2nd Edition - March 13, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier India
- Editors: Ravi Gupta, Sai Krishna Tikka
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 6 8 1 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 6 8 1 5 - 5
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Request a sales quoteTextbook 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.
• 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
• 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
- Textbook of Psychiatry
- Cover image
- Title page
- Disclaimer
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Competency mapper
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- SECTION I. Basics of Psychiatry
- 1. Psychiatry an emerging neuroscience: Historical perspectives
- Introduction
- Nature of the debate
- Evolution of thinking about psychiatric disorders and psychiatry: Is psychiatry a real science?
- Why are psychiatric disorders called functional?
- Historical evolution of psychiatry and mental health care
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 2. Stress and psychological models of learning, memory, motivation and personality
- Stress
- Introduction
- Neurobiology
- Resilience and adaptation to stress
- Is stress always bad?
- How to prevent and manage stress?
- Psychological models of learning, memory, motivation and personality
- Principles of learning
- Memory
- Motivation
- Emotions
- Personality
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 3. History taking
- Introduction
- General principles
- Sections of the psychiatric history and examination
- Conclusion
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 4. Classification of psychiatric disorders: Changing concepts
- Introduction
- Organization of psychiatric disorders as per nosological systems
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 5. Investigations in psychiatry—laboratory
- Introduction
- Plasma concentration of drugs
- Functional neuroimaging
- Electroencephalography
- Modalities used in diagnosing sleep disorders
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 6. Investigations in psychiatry: Psychological
- Introduction
- Some definitions and terminologies
- Psychological assessment: What it tells?
- Classification of psychological assessments
- Psychological assessment in different setups
- Commonly used psychological tests in psychiatry
- Projective tests
- Objective tests
- Intelligence quotient assessments
- Neuropsychological/neurocognitive assessments
- Disability assessment (for Indian population)
- Rating scales for various psychiatric disorders
- Rating scales/checklists/inventories for children
- Pragmatics of psychological investigations
- Report writing
- Case vignettes
- Case vignette 1
- Case vignette 2
- Ethical considerations in psychological assessment
- Controversies to psychological assessment
- Psychological assessment beyond traditional practices
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 7. Electroencephalography and evoked response potentials
- Electroencephalography
- Introduction
- Historical aspects
- Physiological basis
- Indications of EEG
- Electrode placement
- Normal rhythms
- Interpreting EEG
- Evoked response potential
- Introduction
- Historical aspects
- Evoked response potential as biomarker
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 8. Epigenetics—environment to molecule
- Introduction
- Epigenetics and psychiatric disorders
- Challenges
- Future directions
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION II. Child Psychiatry
- 9. Intellectual disability
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Diagnostic modalities
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnoses and comorbidities
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 10. Specific learning di sorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 11. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Pathophysiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist referrals
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 12. Disruptive and impulse control disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical features
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnoses
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions that require referral to specialist
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 13. Elimination disorders and other types of feeding disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions that require referral to specialist
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 14. Autism spectrum disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Pathophysiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Acknowledgements
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 15. Tic disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnoses
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions for specialist referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION III. General Adult Psychiatry
- 16. Mood disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 17. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions requiring specialist referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 18. Anxiety disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Behavioural and cognitive models
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions for specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 19. Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical features
- Etiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions for specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 20. Culture-specific disorders
- Introduction
- Clinical presentation
- Differential diagnosis
- Management
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 21. Stress-related disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- When to refer to specialist
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 22. Psychosexual disorder
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical picture
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology of sexual disorders
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Family education
- When to refer?
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 23. Gender-related disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology of gender dysphoria
- Differential diagnosis
- Comorbidities
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions requiring specialist referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 24. Personality disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions for specialists referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 25. Eating disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Indications for specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 26. Somatic symptoms and related disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist referral
- Take home message
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 27. Dissociative and conversion disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION IV. Addiction Psychiatry
- 28. Neurobiology of addiction
- Introduction
- Research related to the neurobiology of addiction
- Neurobiology of addiction
- Molecular mechanism and genetics of addiction
- DSM-5, ICD-11 and neurobiology of addiction
- Investigations related to neurobiology of addiction
- Neurobiological overlap between substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders
- Neurobiological translation to treatment approaches in addiction
- Take home points
- Acknowledgement
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 29. Substance use disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Individual substance/drug use disorder
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 30. Behavioural addictions
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions where referral to specialist should be considered
- Take home message
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION V. Neuropsychiatry
- 31. Neurocognitive disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions warranting referral to a specialist
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 32. Autoimmune encephalitis
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Indications for referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 33. Stroke: Psychiatric sequelae
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnoses
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 34. Epilepsy and its neuropsychiatric aspects
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION VI. Sleep Medicine
- 35. Sleep and its disorders
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Physiology of sleep
- Macro-architecture of the sleep
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Condition for referral to specialists
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION VII. Headache Medicine
- 36. Headache medicine
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Eliciting clinical signs
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- When is referral to a specialist warranted?
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION VIII. Emergency Psychiatry
- 37. Emergency psychiatry
- Concept
- Epidemiology
- Nosology
- Conditions commonly encountered in emergency
- Aggressive and agitated patient
- Patient with attempted self-harm
- Patient with altered mental status
- Psychotropic overdose
- Catatonia
- Other psychiatric disorders presenting to the emergency
- Patients presenting with prolonged fasting related to psychiatric disorders
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION IX. Nonpharmacological Therapies
- 38. Psychotherapy for psychiatric disorders
- Concept
- Historical aspects
- Ancient Indian perspective and its usefulness in modern psychotherapy
- Scientific basis of psychotherapy
- Basic skills in psychotherapy
- Prominent models of psychotherapy
- Newer approaches to psychotherapy
- Therapy for individual disorders
- Ethics in psychotherapy
- Counselling
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 39. Electroconvulsive therapy
- Modified electroconvulsive therapy
- Mechanism of action of ECT
- Indications of ECT
- Conditions where there is a need for extra precaution for ECT
- ECT-related adverse effects
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 40. Noninvasive brain stimulation in psychiatry
- Basic concepts of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS)
- Applications of noninvasive brain stimulation
- Cranial electrical stimulation
- Focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS)
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Transcranial alternative current stimulation/transcranial random noise stimulation
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Novel noninvasive techniques of brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION X. Psychopharmacology
- 41. Psychopharmacology: General considerations
- Introduction
- General principles of psychopharmacology
- Classes of psychotropic drugs
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 42. Treatment adherence in psychiatry
- Introduction
- Challenges to maintain adherence
- Strategies to improve adherence
- Case-based discussion
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 43. Placebo effects: Neurobiology
- Introduction
- Evidences of placebo response
- Factors associated with placebo response
- Hunt for predictors of placebo response
- Ethics in placebo use
- Nocebo
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION XI. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- 44. Consultation-liaison psychiatry: General principles
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Epidemiology
- Neurobiology
- Psychiatric consultation in general hospital
- Role of other health care providers and ancillary services
- Screening tools: Utility, names and domains covered
- Available practice guidelines
- General principles of pharmacological management in CLP setting
- General principles of nonpharmacological management in CLP setting
- Special treatments and situations
- CLP in special settings
- Ethical and legal issues in CLP
- Conditions indicating specialist referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 45. Gut-brain axis
- Introduction
- Nosology
- Clinical presentation
- Neurobiology
- Investigations
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- Family education
- Conditions indicating specialist’s referral
- Take home message
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 46. Heart-brain axis
- Introduction
- Neurobiology
- Clinical presentation
- Diagnostic fallacies
- Management
- Conditions requiring specialist’s referral
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 47. Psychoneuroimmunology
- Introduction
- Arms of immune system
- Immune system effects on the CNS
- Stress and mental health
- Psychiatric illness and the immune system
- Psychotropic drugs and immunity
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION XII. Other Specialities in Psychiatry
- 48. Geriatric psychiatry
- Introduction
- Dementia
- Depressive disorder in the elderly
- Psychotic disorders in the elderly
- General principles of geriatric psychiatry
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 49. Social psychiatry
- Introduction
- Historical aspects
- Importance of social psychiatry
- Interaction of society with psychiatric illness and treatment
- Harnessing social factors in mental health promotion and prevention in psychiatry
- Initiatives to be taken by social psychiatry
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 50. Community and primary care psychiatry
- Introduction
- Community psychiatry
- Primary care psychiatry
- Models of service delivery in India
- National mental health programme
- Prevention of mental illness and promotion of mental health
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 51. Forensic psychiatry
- Introduction
- Approach to forensic psychiatry
- Mental Health Care Act, 2017
- Code of ethics for psychiatrists in India (Indian psychiatric society 1989)
- Criminal responsibility of a person with psychiatric disorder
- Prevention of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012
- Narcotic Drugs and Substance Psychotropic Abuse Act (NDPS), 1985
- Guidelines for courtroom testimony
- The end-of-life care
- Transplantation of human organs and tissues act (THOTA), 2014
- Sexual offences
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- 52. Psychiatrist’s role in disaster management
- Introduction
- Role of psychiatrist in disaster management
- Take home points
- Multiple choice questions
- Suggested reading
- SECTION XIII. AETCOM Competencies
- 53. AETCOM competencies in psychiatry
- Introduction
- Establish rapport and empathy with patients
- Components of communication
- Breaking of bad news
- Confidentiality
- Personality development
- Take home points
- Suggested reading
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 13, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier India
- No. of pages: 404
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9788131268148
- eBook ISBN: 9788131268155