
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
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
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
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 13, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier India
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9788131268148
- eBook ISBN: 9788131268155