American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Fourth Edition

Rating:
Summary: Very Thorough Overview
Review:

This book gives a very good overview of the clinical neuroscience of behavior and cognitions. It unfortunate (from the stand point of a reader) that not all of these conditions are well understood, but this book gives the best possible explanation of the research literature where a scientific consensus has not been reached. This is a good overview of most area of medical interrest and goes into a lot of dept on many. (Though I was disappointed that it had only a paragraph or two on quantitative electroencephalography.)

A brief comparison: it is more theoretical, detailled, and medically oriented than "Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment," while the later is more practically and diagnostically oriented though aimed at Ph.D.s rather than M.D. It is more behavioral but less detailed than "Comprehensive Neurology" -- if you are looking for a text on behavioral neuroscience, with a clinical or abnormal focus, "American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Neuropsychiatry" is it, while the later is excellent but not intended to have a behavioral focus.

Rating:
Summary: Very Thorough Overview
Review:

This book gives a very good overview of the clinical neuroscience of behavior and cognitions. It unfortunate (from the stand point of a reader) that not all of these conditions are well understood, but this book gives the best possible explanation of the research literature where a scientific consensus has not been reached. This is a good overview of most area of medical interrest and goes into a lot of dept on many. (Though I was disappointed that it had only a paragraph or two on quantitative electroencephalography.)

A brief comparison: it is more theoretical, detailled, and medically oriented than "Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment," while the later is more practically and diagnostically oriented though aimed at Ph.D.s rather than M.D. It is more behavioral but less detailed than "Comprehensive Neurology" -- if you are looking for a text on behavioral neuroscience, with a clinical or abnormal focus, "American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Neuropsychiatry" is it, while the later is excellent but not intended to have a behavioral focus.