Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Martin Adam Goldstein.
Neuropsychiatric examination is an interdisciplinary approach to diagnostic assessment of mental and brain diseases. When performed in a skillful way, with a conceptually grounded structure, neuropsychiatric assessment offers the potential for comprehensive diagnostic insight, thereby facilitating optimally informed treatment planning.
Although the affective and cognitive effects of seizures have long received attention, the anxiety spectrum of psychiatric complications of epilepsy has not been well-studied. Neither purely a mood, thought, or autonomic disorder, anxiety is a unique phenomenon in genesis and expression. Multidisciplinary efforts (neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroendocrine, cognitive neuroscience, functional neuroimaging) are attempting to create a unified neuropsychiatric account of anxiety which, like epilepsy, can be regarded as a model phenomenon in the history of the relationship between neuroscience and mental illness. Comorbid anxiety and epilepsy offers a potentially rich nexus for theoretical and empiric investigation of the neurocircuitry and psychological mechanisms underlying each phenomenon.