Author(s):  Anna Wirz-Justice (Basel, Francesco Benedetti (Milan),  Michael Terman (New York)

Publisher Link: Karger Publishers

Date: March 2009

‘Light therapy’ is the only treatment in psychiatry that directly evolved out of basic neurobiology research. It is recognized as the treatment of choice for seasonal affective disorder and has been successfully used in nonseasonal depression and other psychiatric or neurologic illnesses, including bulimia nervosa and Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time, ‘wake therapy’ is the fastest antidepressant known.

Chronotherapeutic combinations of light and wake therapy achieve fast results and, by reducing residual symptoms, also minimise relapse.

This manual introduces chronotherapeutics for depression, a new synthesis of non-pharmacologic interventions designed to accelerate remission in bipolar and unipolar patients alike. It examines the underlying clinical research, explains the involvement of the circadian timing system, and provides hands-on instructions for treating inpatients and outpatients. Written by three of the most prominent experts in the research and clinical applications of chronotherapy, this book enables clinicians to implement its principles and let their patients benefit from its practicality and effectiveness.

In this manual psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians and health care administrators find comprehensive overviews of theory, research background, practical guidelines, and future prospects. It is also essential reading for practitioners of sleep medicine.

Author(s):  Alice Medalia,  Nadine Revheim, Tiffany Herlands,

Publisher Link: Oxford University Press

Date: March 2009

Cognitive remediation is a form of behavioral based training given to improve cognitive functioning. The Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Cognitive Remediation (NEAR) Model is an evidence-based approach to cognitive remediation that utilizes a set of carefully crafted instructional techniques that reflect an understanding of how people learn best. This therapist guide provides a step-by-step instruction on how to implement NEAR techniques with patients to improve their cognitive functioning and quality of life.

Author(s):  Brown, RP,  Gerbarg, PL, Muskin, PR,

Publisher Link: Norton Professional Books

Date: 2009

All you need to know about herbs, nutrients, and yoga for enhancing mental health. Leaders in the field of complementary medicine present a comprehensive yet compact guide to herbs, nutrients, and yoga as ad-juncts to mental health therapy.

Author(s):  Elliot Jurist, PhD, PhD,  Arietta Slade, PhD, Sharone Bergner, Phd,

Publisher Link: Random House Inc

Date: June 2008

This volume is based on a conference about mentalization at CUNY.

In September 2005, the City University of New York hosted a conference on mentalization, a concept introduced by Peter Fonagy and colleagues over the past twenty years. At this conference leading researchers and thinkers examined mentalization and its operationalized version, reflective functioning, from a range of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives.

Author(s):  Edited by: Eric Wassermann, Charles Epstein, Ulf Ziemann, Vincent Walsh, Tomás Paus, Sarah Lisanby

Publisher Link: Oxford University Press

Date: March 2008
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Since becoming commercially available in 1985, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has emerged as an important tool in several areas of neuroscience. Originally envisioned as a way to measure the responsiveness and conduction speed of neurons and synapses in the brain and spinal cord, TMS has also become an important tool for changing the activity of brain neurons and the functions they subserve and as important adjunct to brain imaging and mapping techniques. Along with transcranial electrical stimulation techniques, TMS has diffused far beyond the borders of clinical neurophysiology and into cognitive, perceptual, behavioral, and therapeutic investigation and attracted a highly diverse group of users and would-be users.

This book provides an authoritative review of the scientific and technical background required to understand transcranial stimulation techniques and a wide-ranging survey of their burgeoning application in neurophysiology, perception, cognition, emotion, and the clinic. Each of its six sections deals with a major area and is edited by an international authority therein. It will serve researchers, clinicians, students, and others as the definitive text in this area for years to come.

Author(s):  D Peter Birkett MD

Publisher Link: The Haworth Press, Inc.

Date: February, 2008

This standard text has been brought completely up-to-date and slightly shortened. It is written from the point of view of an actively practicing clinical psychiatrist but fully covers all the relevant aspects of neurology, geriatrics, psychology and sociology. As well as such standard topics as dementia, depression and aphasia it covers such things as dizziness, the factors involved in seeking early treatment, the diagnostic dilemmas of headache, sexual dysfunction and antisocial behaviors. An appendix contains a fascinating account of the cases of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Hitler.

Author(s):  Talbott JA, Ballenger JC, Buckley P, Frances RJ, Markowitz JC,  Sarles R (Editors)

Publisher Link: Elsevier Health Sciences

Date: April 2009

The Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in psychiatry and mental health, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide.

Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Annual topics feature the latest information on biological psychiatry, alcohol and substance-related disorders, psychiatry and the law, psychotherapy, and clinical psychiatry.

The Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health is published annually in March.