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edited by Dennis S. Charney and Eric J. Nestler, 2nd ed, 1231 pp, with illus, $175, ISBN 0-19-514962-9, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2004.

JAMA. 2004;292:387-388.

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As its title indicates, this text provides an overview of the neurobiology of the major psychiatric disorders and clinical clusters. Contributing authors are accomplished scientists, who share a lifetime of perspective on complex and dynamic schemas for understanding the reciprocal interaction between biology and behavior.

The book provides a well-written, neatly organized, and synthetic middle ground between a more comprehensive text of clinical psychiatry, as provided in Synopsis of Psychiatry, edited by Kaplan and Sadock (Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) and basic neuroscience texts, such as Principles of Neuroscience, edited by Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell (New York, NY, McGraw-Hill). As such, a text of this sort is a requisite for any modern psychiatry residency curriculum. Similarly, as the boundary between mental illness and neurological illness continues to blur, neurologists and neurology training programs would be well served by this text in the service of widening their understanding of diseases . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Steven J. Siegel, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Stanley Center for Experimental Therapeutics in Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
siegels@mail.med.upenn.edu

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