Jahangir Moini, Justin Koenitzer, Anthony Logalbo

Global Emergency of Mental Disorders (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

• 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323858434
• Artikelnr.: 61904716

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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