Education
Educational Resources
Every effort is made to ensure the content is open source.
Education
Educational Resources
Every effort is made to ensure the content is open source.
Recommended Textbooks
David AS, Fleminger S, Kopelman M, Lovestone S, Mellers J. Lishman's Organic Psychiatry. London: Wiley, 2009
Moore DP, Puri BK. Textbook of Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience 3rd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012
Arciniegas DB, Anderson CA, Filley CM. (Eds.) Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Miller BL, Boeve BF. The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Silbersweig DA, Safar LT, Daffner KR. Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology: Principles and Practice. New York: McGraw Hill, 2021Silver JM, McAllister TW, Arciniegas DB. Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2018
Zollman FS. Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury. New York: Springer Publishing, 2022.
Zasler ND, Katz DI, Zafonte RD. Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice. New York: Springer Publishing, 2021.Parsons MW, Hammeke TE. (Eds.) Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment 3rd Ed. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2014
Schoenberg MR, Scott JG. (Eds.) The Little Black Book of Neuropsychology: A Syndrome Based Approach. New York: Springer, 2011.
Lezak MD, Howieson DB, Bigler ED, Tranel D. Neuropsychological Assessment. 5th Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Heilman K, Valenstein E. Eds.) Clinical Neuropsychology. 5th Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011Hodges JR. Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians. 3rd ed Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
Strub RL, Black WF. The Mental Status Examination in Neurology 4th ed. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 2000
Mendez MF. The Mental Status Examination Handbook. Elsevier, 2021Filley CM. Neurobehavioral Anatomy 3rd Ed. University Press of Colorado, 2011.
Blumenfeld H. Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases 3rd Ed. Oxford: Sinauer Associates, 2021
Clark DL, Boutros NH, Mendez MF. The Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroanatomy 4th Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018Zorumski C, Rubin E. Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience: A Primer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
Higgins ES, George MS. The Neuroscience of Clinical Psychiatry 3rd Ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2018
Nestler E, Hyman S, Malenka R. Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience 4th Ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2018
Recommended Articles
Eknoyan D, Hurley RA, Taber K. The Clock Drawing Task: Common Errors and Functional Neuroanatomy. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2012; 24: 260-265
This is an excellent article on common errors and what they mean using the clock drawing test which is the most useful part of the neuropsychiatric assessment in my opinionAarsland D, Marsh L, Schrag A. Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2009.
Ferro JM, Caeiro L, Figueira ML. Neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke. Nat Rev Neurol. 2016.
Ffytche DH, Creese B, Politis M, et al. The psychosis spectrum in Parkinson's disease. Nat Rev Neurol. 2017.
Lanata SC, Miller BL. The behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) syndrome in psychiatry. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2016.
Murphy R, O’Donoghue S, Counihan T, et al. Neuropsychiatric syndromes of multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017.
Paulsen JS, Ready RE, Hamilton JM, et al. Neuropsychiatric aspects of Huntington's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2001.
Walterfang M, Bonnot O, Mocellin R, Velakoulis D. The neuropsychiatry of inborn errors of metabolism. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2013.Dubois B, Villain N, Frisoni GB, et al. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group. Lancet Neurol. 2021.
Ducharme S, Dols A, Laforce R, et al. Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders. Brain. 2020.
Lanctôt KL, et al. Neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: New treatment paradigms. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2017.
McKeith IG, Boeve BF, Dickson DW, et al. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology. 2017.
Rascovsky K, Hodges JR, Knopman D et al. Sensitivity of revised criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia. Brain. 2011.
Schneider LS, Tariot PN, Dagerman KS et al. Effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic drugs in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. N Engl J Med. 2006.Ball HA, McWhirter L, Ballard C, et al. Functional cognitive disorder: dementia's blind spot. Brain. 2020.
Ertan D, Aybek S, LaFrance WC Jr, et al. Functional (psychogenic non-epileptic/dissociative) seizures. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2022.
Espay AJ, Aybek S, Carson A, et al. Current concepts in diagnosis and treatment of functional neurological disorders. JAMA Neurol. 2018.Jassam YN, Izzy S, Whalen M, et al. Neuroimmunology of traumatic brain injury. Neuron. 2017.
McAllister TW. Neurobiological consequences of traumatic brain injury. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2011.
Geschwind MD, Haman A, Miller BL. Rapidly progressive dementia. Neurol Clin. 2007.Kayser MS, Kohler CG, Dalmau J. Psychiatric manifestations of paraneoplastic disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2010.
Ford H, Griffith S, Warren N, et al. Psychiatric manifestations of autoimmune encephalitis. Autoimmun Rev. 2022.
Kanner AM, Rivas-Grajales AM. Psychosis of epilepsy: a multifaceted neuropsychiatric disorder. CNS Spectrums. 2016.Howard RJ, et al. Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer’s Disease. N Engl J Med. 2007.
O’sullivan SS, Evans AH, Lees AJ. Dopamine dysregulation syndrome. CNS Drugs. 2009.
Pringsheim T, Okun MS, Müller-Vahl K, et al. Treatment of tics in people with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorders. Neurology. 2019.Boyer EW, Shannon M. The serotonin syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2005.
Parvizi J, et al. Pathological laughter and crying: a link to the cerebellum. Brain. 2001.
Starkstein SE, Leentjens AF. The nosological position of apathy in clinical practice. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008.Blair RJ. The neurobiology of psychopathic traits in youths. Nature reviews neuroscience. 2013 Nov; 14(11):786-99.
Dalgleish T. The emotional brain. Nat Rev Neurosci 2004; 5:583-589
Everitt BJ, Robbins TW. Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion. Nat Rev Neurosci 2005; 8:1481-1489
Heim C, Nemeroff CB. The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies. Biol Psychiatry 2001; 49:1023-1039
Howes OD, Kapur S. The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia: version III – the final common pathway. Schizophr Bull 2009; 35:549-562
Koob GF, Volkow ND. Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2016; 3(8):760-73.
Kraus SW, Voon V, Potenza MN. Neurobiology of compulsive sexual behavior: Emerging science. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016; 41(1):385.
Krishnan V, Nestler EJ. The molecular neurobiology of depression. Nature 2008; 455:894-902
Kapur S. Psychosis as a state of aberrant salience: a framework linking biology, phenomenology, and pharmacology in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160:13-23
LeDoux J. Rethinking the emotional brain. Neuron. 2012; 73(4):653-76.
Pauls DL, Abramovitch A, Rauch SL, Geller DA. Obsessive–compulsive disorder: an integrative genetic and neurobiological perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2014; 15(6):410-24.
Sherin JE, Nemeroff CB. Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience. 2022.
Sterzer P, Adams RA, Fletcher P, et al. The predictive coding account of psychosis. Biological psychiatry. 2018; 84(9):634-43.
Handouts
N.B. These handouts are provided as a courtesy from Dr. Datta's past teaching. As clinical knowledge is always evolving, they may not be up to date, are necessarily brief summaries and not comprehensive in scope, and do not necessarily reflect Dr. Datta's views or current practice.
A Framework for Psychiatric Diagnosis
Expands Fould's Hierarchy presenting a schema for diagnosis in psychiatry.
Investigations for Workup of Psychosis/Altered Mental Status
Table listing possible investigations for workup of psychosis/AMS.
Differential Diagnosis of Psychosis
Lists the most important diagnoses to consider for patients presenting with delusions, hallucinations, and unusual behavior.
Differential Diagnosis of Puerperal Psychosis
Lists the most important diagnoses to consider in patients during the post-partum period/puerperium.
Suicide Risk Assessment
Summary of seminar on suicide risk assessment for medical students and psychiatry residents.
The Concept of Mental Disorder
Lists some of the key philosophical frameworks proposed for understanding "what is a mental disorder?"Psychiatric Manifestations of Neurological Disease
Summary from Dr. Datta's annual lecture to PGY-1/2 Psychiatry Residents.
Cognitive Domains
Summary of the domains of cognition, neuroanatomy, and tests of function.
Disorders of Perception
Summary of lecture on hallucinations for PGY-2 Psychiatry Residents.
Catatonia
Summary of lecture on The Catatonia Syndrome for PGY-2 Psychiatry Residents.
The Psychoses of Epilepsy
Summary of seminar for PGY3/4 psychiatry residents and epilepsy fellows on the psychoses of epilepsy.
Psychopharmacology in Neurology
Handout (with answers) from seminar for Neurology Residents on psychiatric drugs in patients with neurological disorders.
Psychiatry and Antipsychiatry
Describes the central arguments put forward by some individuals associated with the antipsychiatry movement in the 20th century.Psychopathology and Diagnosis of Mood Disorders
Summary of lecture on psychopathology of mood disorders for PGY-1 psychiatry residents.
Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias
Handout from seminar on sexual dysfunction and paraphilias for 3rd-year medical students.
Life Events and Illness
Summary of some of the data on the role of life events and illness.