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Harris' Developmental Neuropsychiatry provides updated information to the first edition which defined the field of developmental neuropsychiatry, and is the most recent comprehensive textbook in the field.
List of contents
- Introduction: Historical Landmarks In Developmental Neuropsychiatry
- Part I: Clinical Methods of Assessment and Examination in Developmental Neuropsychiatry
- 1. Assessment, Interview, and Behavior Rating
- 2. Neuropsychological Testing: Assessing The Mechanisms of Cognition And Complex Behavioral Functioning
- Part II: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- 3. Attention
- 4. Emotion
- 5. Language
- 6. Memory
- 7. The Human Connectome
- 8. Consciousness
- Part III; Social Neuroscience
- 9. Attachment
- 10. Developmental Social Neuroscience
- 11. Attachment Security Disorders
- 12. Emergence of The Self
- 13. Temperament
- Part IV: Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- 14. Intellectual Developmental Disorder
- 15. Autism Spectrum Disorder
- 16. ADHD
- 17. Specific Learning Disorders
- 18. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- 19. Challenging Behavior: Aggression and Self-Injury
About the author
James C Harris, MD received his BS from the University of Maryland, MD from George Washington Medical School, and completed residencies at L.A. Children's and Johns Hopkins Hospitals and a fellowship at Kennedy Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as Director of Developmental Neuropsychiatry at The Kennedy Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital (1976-92) and Director of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins (1978-82). He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1997. He has authored 109 scientific articles and chapters, five books and 148 Art and Images in Psychiatry.
Joseph T Coyle, MD received his BA from Holy Cross College, MD from Johns Hopkins University and completed a pediatric internship and a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as the Director of Child Psychiatry at Hopkins (1982-91) and was appointed the Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard
Medical School in 1991 and was also appointed the academic Chairman of Psychiatry (1991-2001). He has authored over 600 scientific articles and chapters and 13 books. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994).
Summary
Harris' Developmental Neuropsychiatry provides updated information to the first edition which defined the field of developmental neuropsychiatry, and is the most recent comprehensive textbook in the field.
