(Ebook) Neurologic-Psychiatric Syndromes in Focus Part I by Julien Bogousslavsky ISBN 9783318058581, 9783318060881, 9783318058598, 9783318060898, 3318058580, 3318060887, 3318058599, 3318060895

(Ebook) Neurologic-Psychiatric Syndromes in Focus Part I by Julien Bogousslavsky ISBN 9783318058581, 9783318060881, 9783318058598, 9783318060898, 3318058580, 3318060887, 3318058599, 3318060895

The late 19th century and early 20th century witnessed neurology and psychiatry becomingtwo distinct fields in medicine. However, many overlaps between the twofields have been since then, leading to the reactivation of the clinical approach,thought to mainly bear a historical relevance. Neurologists have now become interestedin mood and behavior, because they observed that emotional behavioral changeswere often dramatically significant in patients with focal brain lesions or neurodegenerativedisorders. On the contrary, psychiatrists have developed a renewed interestin the brain and its interaction with the psychological state. It is striking that while“neuropsychiatry” progressively became obsolete during the second half of the 20thcentury, a new approach to the functional changes associated with brain lesions andto the cerebral correlates of psychological dysfunction may justify a modern redefinitionof the field.Many neurologic-psychiatric syndromes have remained poorly known, because ofa rarity in the literature which could often be explained by their position in the formerno-man’s-land between classical neurology and psychiatry. The goal of the presentbook, which is divided into two parts (for Part II – From Psychiatry to Neurology, seeFrontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience, vol. 42), is to shed light on the so-called“uncommon syndromes,” which may in fact be more frequent than what the literaturesuggests. Since several of these clinical syndromes were first reported over a centuryago, they are often known by an eponym (Ganser, Capgras, de Cérambault, Cotard,etc.) or a mythological or fictional figure (Diogenes, Othello, Alice in Wonderland,etc.). This also explains why the historical description and development of these neuropsychiatricsyndromes is of particular interest, and we have attempted to give detailson this perspective across time. We have also tried to focus on the most representativeclinical syndromes, excluding from our survey very common manifestations(anosognosia, confabulation) which have been the specific topic of recentreviews, or particular forms of delusions (delusional parasitosis) which do not bringspecific information as compared to other delusional syndromes covered here.