High-Yield Behavioral Science

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Child Development
I. Infancy: Birth to 15 Months
II. The Toddler Years: 16 Months to 2 1/2 Years
III. The Preschooler: 3 to 6 Years
IV. School Age: 7 to 11 Years
2. Adolescence and Adulthood
I. Adolescence: 11 to 20 Years
II. Early Adulthood: 20 to 40 Years
III. Middle Adulthood: 40 to 65 Years
3. Aging, Death, and Bereavement
I. Aging
II. Dying, Death, and Bereavement
4. Psychoanalytic Theory
I. Freud’s Theories of the Mind
II. Psychoanalysis and Related Therapies
III. Defense Mechanisms
5. Learning Theory and Behavioral Medicine
I. Overview
II. Habituation and Sensitization
III. Classical Conditioning
IV. Operant Conditioning
V. Application of Behavioral Techniques to Medicine
6. Substance-Related Disorders
I. Overview of Substance-Related Disorders
II. Neurotransmitter Associations
III. Identifying Substance Use Disorders
IV. Management of Substance Use Disorders
7. Sleep
I. The Awake State and the Normal Sleep State
II. Sleep Disorders
8. The Genetics of Behavior
I. Genetic Studies
II. Genetic Origins of Psychiatric Disorders
III. Genetic Origins of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
IV. Alcoholism
9. Behavioral Neuroanatomy and Neurochemistry
I. Neuroanatomy
II. Neurotransmission
III. Biogenic Amines
IV. Amino Acid Neurotransmitters Are Involved in Most Synapses in the Brain
10. Psychopharmacology
I. Agents Used to Treat Psychosis
II. Agents Used to Treat Mood Disorders
III. Agents Used to Treat Anxiety
IV. Pschoactive Medications in Pregnancy
11. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
I. Psychiatric Disorders: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) and 5th Edition (DSM-5)
II. Overview of Schizophrenia and the Psychotic Disorders
III. Etiology
IV. Clinical Signs and Symptoms
V. Prognosis and Management
12. Mood Disorders
I. Definition, Categories, and Epidemiology
II. Etiology
III. Clinical Signs and Symptoms
IV. Differential Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Management
13. Cognitive Disorders
I. Overview
II. Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (Alzheimer Disease)
14. Other Psychiatric Disorders
I. Anxiety Disorders
II. Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorder, and Malingering
III. Personality Disorders
IV. Dissociative Disorders
V. Obesity and Eating Disorders
VI. Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Childhood
15. Suicide
I. Epidemiology
II. Suicidal Behavior
III. Risk Factors
16. Tests to Determine Neuropsychological Functioning
I. Overview
II. Intelligence Tests
III. Personality Tests
IV. Neuropsychological Tests
V. Psychological Evaluation of the Patient with Psychiatric Symptoms
VI. Biological Evaluation of the Patient with Psychiatric Symptoms
17. The Family, Culture, and Illness
I. The Family
II. United States Culture
18. Sexuality
I. Sexual Development
II. The Biology of Sexuality in Adulthood
III. Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias
IV. Special Issues in Sexuality: Illness, Injury, and Aging
V. Drugs and Sexuality
19. Violence and Abuse
I. Violence
II. Abuse and Neglect of Children and the Elderly
III. Physical and Sexual Abuse of Domestic Partners
IV. Sexual Aggression: Rape and Related Crimes
20. The Physician–Patient Relationship
I. Communicating With Patients
II. The Ill Patient
III. Adherence
IV. Stress and Illness
V. Special Patient Populations
21. Health Care Delivery
I. Health Care Delivery Systems
II. Physicians
III. Cost of Health Care
IV. Health Insurance
V. Demographics of Health
22. Legal and Ethical Issues in Medical Practice
I. Professional Behavior
II. Legal Competence and Capacity
III. Informed Consent
IV. Confidentiality
V. Infectious Diseases
VI. Advance Directives
VII. Death and Euthanasia
23. Epidemiology
I. Overview
II. Research Study Design
III. Measurement of Risk
IV. Testing
24. Statistical Analyses
I. Variables and Measures of Dispersion and Central Tendency
II. Hypothesis Testing
III. Statistical Tests

Index