Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Child Development -- I. Infancy: birth to 15 months -- II. The toddler years: 15 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. Unconscious mental processes -- 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. Treatment 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 -- V. Neuropeptides -- 10 Psychopharmacology -- I. Agents used to treat psychosis -- II. Agents used to treat mood disorders -- III. Agents used to treat anxiety -- 11 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders -- I. Overview -- II. Etiology -- III. Clinical signs and symptoms -- IV. Prognosis and treatment -- 12 Mood Disorders -- I. Definition, categories, and epidemiology -- II. Etiology -- III. Clinical signs and symptoms -- IV. Differential diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment -- 13 Cognitive Disorders -- I. Overview -- II. Dementia of the Alzheimer type (Alzheimer disease) -- 14 Other Psychiatric Disorders -- I. Anxiety disorders -- II. Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, 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, pregnancy, and aging -- V. Drugs and sexuality -- 19 Aggression and Abuse -- I. Aggression -- 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. Compliance -- 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 -- 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.