Welcome to the International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine
CNS Spectrums is a monthly Index Medicus/MEDLINE journal designed to bridge the clinical information needs of 50,000 psychiatrists and neurologists. Introduced in 1996, CNS Spectrums reaches more physicians than any other peer-reviewed neuropsychiatric journal in the world. In addition, the 2005 ISI Journal Citation Reports’ Impact Factor for CNS Spectrums is 2.037 and is based on a total of 580 citations. This ranking places CNS Spectrums in the top half of all Psychiatry journals included in the study.
CNS Spectrums’ editorial mission is to address relevant neuropsychiatric topics, including the prevalence of comorbid diseases among patients, and original research and reports that emphasize the profound diagnostic and physiologic connections made within the neurologic and psychiatric fields. The journal’s goal is to serve as a resource to psychiatrists and neurologists seeking to understand and treat disturbances of cognition, emotion, and behavior as a direct consequence of central nervous system disease, illness, or trauma.
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Trauma, Multiple Sclerosis, Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, Subjective Experiences, and Duration of Illness in GAD
Eric Hollander, MD
In this month’s issue we launch the new series, Grand Rounds. The first installment is from a presentation at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. We hope that this series eventually spreads to other academic and international departments of psychiatry and neurology. more... |
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| Pearls in Clinical Neuroscience |
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Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of Somatization Disorder and Functional Somatic Syndromes: Reconceptualizing The Triad of Depression-Anxiety-Somatic Symptoms
Dan J. Stein, MD, PhD, and Jacqueline Muller, MD
Somatization disorder is a somatoform disorder that overlaps with a number of functional somatic syndromes and has high comorbidity with major depression and anxiety disorders. Proposals have been made for revising the category of somatoform disorders, for simplifying the criteria for somatization disorder, and for emphasizing the unitary nature of the functional somatic syndromes in future classifications. A review of the cognitive-affective neuroscience of somatization disorder and related conditions suggests that overlapping psychobiological mechanisms mediate depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms. more... |
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| Grand Rounds |
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Diagnosing PTSD: Does It Help Us Heal?
Presenter: Noah DeGaetano, MD; Discussant: Rachel Yehuda, PhD; Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ms. A is a woman in her late twenties who was born in Poland and moved to New York City with her mother when she was 13 years of age. She currently lives with her husband and 6 year old son and is a part-time home-health aide. I have been treating her with psychodynamic psychotherapy and medication management for the last year. more... |
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