Depression in Neurologic Disorders (eBook)

Andres Kanner, MD, Professor of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Rush Medical College at Rush University; Director, Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video-EEG-Telemetry; Associate Director, Section of Epilepsy and Rush Epilepsy Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA. Professor Andres Kanner was educated in Mexico City but completed his training at the prestigious College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. He specialized in psychiatry but took a special interest in neurologic disease, in particular epilepsy. As a result he is triple boarded in neurology, psychiatry and clinical neurophysiology. His research has focused on the surgical and pharmacologic treatment of refractory epilepsy and has become an internationally recognized authority in psychiatric issues in epilepsy.He has authored more than 100 articles and has co-edited textbooks on various aspects of epilepsy, psychiatry and depression.

Contributors vii

Foreword viii

Preface x

Acknowledgments xii

Part One: General Considerations

Chapter 1 Depression in Neurologic Disorders: Why Should
Neurologists Care? 3

Andres M. Kanner

Chapter 2 Neurobiological Aspects of Depression: How Do They
Affect Neurologic Disorders? 10

Hrvoje Hecimovic

Chapter 3 Idiopathic Depressive Disorders: Basic Principles
28

John J. Barry

Chapter 4 Screening Instruments for Depression in Neurologic
Disorders: Their Application in the Clinic and in Research 39

Andres M. Kanner and Angela Strobel Parsons

Chapter 5 Suicidality in Neurologic Diseases 52

Yukari Tadokoro and Andres M. Kanner

Chapter 6 Neuropsychological Aspects of Depression: Their
Relevance in Depression in Neurologic Disorders 64

Erica J. Kalkut and Christopher L. Grote

Chapter 7 Depressive Disorders in Children and Adolescents with
Neurologic Disorders 77

Rochelle Caplan

Chapter 8 Basic Principles in the Management of Depression in
Neurologic Disorders 94

Marco Mula

Part Two: Depression and Neurologic Disorders

Chapter 9 Depression and Migraine 105

Joan Roig Llesuy

Chapter 10 Poststroke Depression 116

Andres M. Kanner

Chapter 11 Depressive Disorders in Epilepsy 126

Andres M. Kanner

Chapter 12 Depression and Movement Disorders 145

Oliver Tüscher and Ludger Tebartz van Elst

Chapter 13 Depression and Multiple Sclerosis 157

Dana J. Serafi n, Deborah M. Weisbrot, and Alan B.
Ettinger

Chapter 14 Depression and Alzheimer's Disease 177

Pablo Richly, Facundo Manes, and Julián Bustin

Chapter 15 Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury 189

Seth A. Mensah and Michael P. Kerr

Index 207

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