Introduction to Psychiatry

Jonathan E. Alpert is the Dorothy And Marty Silverman University Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. Steven C. Schlozman is assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a psychiatrist and child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Audrey Walker is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and paediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also currently Division Chief and Program Director in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

1. Introduction Jonathan E. Alpert, Audrey Walker and Steven Schlozman; 2. Clinical Neuroscience Ayol Samuels, Matthew L Baum, Joseph Luschinger, Robert G Mealer and Rachel A Ross; 3. Introduction to the Patient Interview Todd Griswold, Michael Kahn, Mark Schechter, Janet Yassen, Felicia Smith, Rebecca Brendel; 4. Mood Disorders Scott R. Beach, Jeff C. Huffman, Ji Hyun Baek, Michael Treadway, Andrew A Nierenberg and Jonathan Alpert; 5. Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders Dost Ongur, Francine Benes, Oliver Freudenreich, Matcheri Keshavan and Robert McCarley; 6. Anxiety Disorders Meredith Charney, Eric Bui, Elizabeth Goetter, Carl Salzman, John Worthington, Luana Marques, Jerrold Rosenbaum and Naomi Simon; 7. Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Ryan J. Jacoby, Amanda W. Baker, Michael A. Jenike, Scott L. Rauch, Sabine Wilhelm; 8. Disorders Related to Stress and Trauma Eric Bui, Meredith Charney, Mohammed R. Milad, Devon Hinton, Fredrick Stoddard, Terence Keane, Roger Pitman and Naomi M. Simon; 9. Substance Use Disorders Hilary S. Connery, Mark J. Albanese, Jeffrey J. DeVido, Kevin P. Hill, R. Kathryn McHugh, Joji Suzuki and Roger D. Weiss; 10. Personality Disorders Lois W. Choi-Kain, Ana M. Rodriguez-Villa, Gabrielle S. Ilagan and Evan A Illiakis; 11. Neurocognitive Disorders Brent P. Forester, Feyza Marouf, Ben Legesse, Olivia I. Okereke, Deborah Blacker; 12. Feeding and Eating Disorders Anne E Becker, Kamryn T. Eddy, David C. Jimerson and Jennifer J. Thomas; 13. Child Psychiatry and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Scott Shaffer, Steven Schlozman and Chris McDougle; 14. Sleep Disorders Susan Chang and John Winkelman; 15. Psychophamacology and Neurotherapeutics Steven Seiner, Jonathan E. Alpert, Ross Baldessarini, Joan Camprodon, Darin Dougherty, Lior Givon and Jeffrey DeVido; 16. Psychosocial Interventions Marhall Forstein, Alfred Marguiles, Robert Goisman, Elizabeth Simpson, Eleanor Counselman, Miriam Tepper, Jennifer Greenwold, Zev Schuman-Oliver and Darshan Mehta; 17. Psychiatric Evaluation in the Medical Setting Fremonta Meyer, Oriana Vesga Lopez, Felicia Smith, Robert Joseph, Ted Avi Gerstenblith, Theodore Stern, John Peteet, Donna Greenberg and David Gitlin; 18. Psychiatry of Gender and Sexuality Aaron Breslow; 19. Health Policy and Population Health in Behavioral Health Care in the United States Kirstin Beach and Bruce Schwartz; 20. Global Health and Mental Health Care Delivery in Low-resource Settings Giuseppe Raviola.