PSYCHIATRICS V.M. Bashina Sums up the results of more than 30-year studies of autistic children. Presents
modern approaches to defining the typology of autism, discusses its multifactorial nature,
course, prognosis, therapy, and rehabilitation of patients. Presents for the first time
the results of neurophysiolodical examinations of children with different forms of autism.
The classification of childhood autism accepted in Russia is compatible with the
International Disease Classification-10 (1994, 1995) due to introduction of this latter in
practical public health of Russia. Epilepsy and Convulsive Syndromes in Children: Manual for
Physicians/Ed. by P.A. Temin, and M.Yu. Nikanorova. Second edition, revised and
supplemented The second version of this manual (the first was published in 1997)
presents new data on etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, therapy, and prevention
of epilepsy and convulsive syndromes in children. Problems related to paroxysmal states of
other than epileptic origin are discussed. Convulsive states in various metabolic
disorders are described. New sections are added, dealing with hereditary disorders of
amino acid metabolism, epileptic status, convulsive syndrome in hypocalcemia, and
alterating hemiplegia syndrome. Handbook of Psychiatry. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 / A.S. Tiganov, A.V.
Snezhnevsky, D.D. Orlovskaya et al.; Ed. by A.S. Tiganov The present textbook reflects current knowledge in psychiatry. The
problems of psychiatry are given against the background of its history and achievements in
some clinical and fundamental aspects, which during the past decades have contributed to a
great extent to the problems of diagnosis, understanding of the nature and treatment
modalities in the differents forms of mental pathology. The changes which developed during
the last two decades are reflected: new aproaches to the systematics of mental disorders
and their diagnostics; new data concerning the etiology, pathogenesis of psychoses and
mechanisms of drug actions; new law regulations in psychiatry and its influence on social
aspects of psychiatry and the organization of psychiatric services. Handbook of Psychiatry. 2 volumes. Vol. 2 / A.S. Tiganov, A.V.
Snezhnevsky, D.D. Orlovskaya et al.; Ed. by A.S. Tiganov In volume 2 epilepsy, dementing disorders of life,
exogenous-organic mental disorders (in head trauma, tumors, neuroinfections), exogenous
diseases (alcoholism, drug addiction, somatogenic disorders), psychosomatic pathology,
psychogenic psychoses, neuroses, personality disorders, mental retardation and boundary
conditions are presented. |