Depression in Neurologic Disorders – Diagnosis and Management

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 Tuscher 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 Julian Bustin Chapter 15 Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury 189 Seth A. Mensah and Michael P. Kerr Index 207 Color plate section is found facing page 20