Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics: Contemporary Surgical and Device-Based Treatments / Edition 1

by Joan A. Camprodon, Scott L. Rauch, Benjamin D. Greenberg, Darin D. Dougherty

Overview

This volume covers the gamut of surgical and device-based treatments for psychiatric disorders. Written by experts in the field, this book covers neuroscience advances in the neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric diseases, emerging surgical and device-based treatments, and advances in the field. Topics include electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), and many other cutting-edge treatments and techniques.

Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, researchers, and all other medical professionals interested in surgical and device-based treatments of psychiatric disorders.  

      

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934115503
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	03/19/2016
Series:	Current Clinical Psychiatry
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joan Camprodon, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Laboratory for Neuropsychiatry & Neuromodulation, Director of Translational Research, Division of Neurotherapeutics, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA



Scott L. Rauch, President and Psychiatrist in Chief, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, Chair of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478


Darin D. Dougherty, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 149 Thirteenth Street, Charleston, MA, 02129, USA

Benjamin D. Greenberg, Brown University School of Medicine, 345 Blackstone Boulevard Providence, RI, 02906, USA        

Table of Contents

1) Depression: current conceptual trends

Ziad Nahas

2) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Evelyn Stewart

3) Neuroimaging and Neurocircuitry of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

Simon Ducharme, Darin D. Dougherty, Wayne C. Drevets

4) Electroconvulsive Therapy 

Cristina Cusin

5) Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)

Mario Cristiancho, Pilar Cristancho, Murat Altinan, & John P. O’Reardon

6) Neurosurgical Ablative Procedures for psychiatric disorders

Simon Ducharme, Bruce H. Price, & Darin D. Dougherty

7) Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.

Nicole McLaughlin, Catherine Stewart & Benjamin D. Greenberg

8) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 

Joan A. Camprodon

9) Animal models for ablative

neurotherapeutics and deep brain stimulation of psychiatric disorders

Christelle Baunez

10) Future of Neurosurgery

Sameer A. Sheth, Polina Ogas, Emad Eskandar         

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michael Schrift, DO (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: The available modalities for neuromodulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders have grown over the last several decades. Part of the impetus to develop these techniques grew from the perceived cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy, which are generally short lived. These include repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS), and neurosurgical ablative techniques. The latter two require surgical intervention to implant devices or electrodes or to induce lesions. Because these modalities do not elicit grand mal seizures, they have been suggested as replacements for ECT on the assumption that the treatments will achieve equivalent reductions in depression and lesser effects on memory. Electroconvulsive therapy remains the gold standard with which other treatments need to be compared. It still remains to be seen whether nonseizure neurostimulation methods are effective in relieving the severely psychiatrically ill. This book, by leading clinicians-researchers, surveys this burgeoning field with up-to-date reviews of each of these technologies, outlining the methods, benefits, and side effects of each treatment.
Purpose: The purpose of the book, according to the editors, is to "offer the reader an overview of the state of the art of therapeutic neuromodulation in psychiatry, discussing the techniques and biophysical principles, the mechanisms of action, animal and human research, clinical indications, clinical practice, safety considerations, and future directions." Indeed, the editors and chapter authors have produced an information-filled, well-written, and concise review of these techniques.
Audience: Their intended audience is "psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, researchers, and all other medical professionals interested in surgical and device-based treatments of psychiatric disorders."
Features: The first two chapters focus on depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, respectively, followed by an interesting chapter on neuroimaging and neurocircuitry of obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder. The remaining chapters cover in detail each of the technologies, including electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, neurosurgical ablative procedures for psychiatric disorders, deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder, transcranial magnetic stimulation, ablative therapeutics, and deep brain stimulation animal models of psychiatric disorders. The final chapter discusses the future of neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders. Each chapter concludes with timely and pertinent references of the scientific literature. The index section is very helpful, particularly for a book like this.
Assessment: This is an excellent, concise book on psychiatric neurotherapeutics. It's an outstanding review of the literature and is required reading for any psychiatrists involved in the treatment of patients with severe psychiatric disorders.

Doody's Review Service

The editors and chapter authors have produced an information-filled, well-written, and concise review of these techniques. … Each chapter concludes with timely and pertinent references of the scientific literature. The index section is very helpful, particularly for a book like this. This is an excellent, concise book on psychiatric neurotherapeutics. It's an outstanding review of the literature and is required reading for any psychiatrists involved in the treatment of patients with severe psychiatric disorders.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2016)

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