Handbook of psychiatric diagnostic procedures / [electronic resource] [edited by] Richard C.W. Hall, Thomas P. Beresford.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

v. 1. Dexamethasone suppression test -- Comprehensive thyroid evaluation in psychiatric patients -- CNS amine metabolites -- Laboratory procedures related to the metals -- Plasma concentration monitoring of antipsychotic and tricyclic antidepressant treatment -- Lithium monitoring -- Blood level determinations of commonly prescribed medical drugs -- Blood level monitoring of antiepileptic drugs -- Stimulant challenge tests -- Laboratory evaluation of newly admitted psychiatric patients -- Psychiatric diagnostic procedures in the emergency department.

v. 2. Clinical electroencephalography as an assessment method in psychiatric practice -- Sleep electroencephalograpy -- Identification of melancholia using EEG studies of sleep -- Tests of psychomotor function -- Evoked potentials -- Special electrophysiological tests -- The role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) -- The alcoholic patient -- The patient with anorexia nervosa or bulimia -- The provisional diagnosis of dementia -- The comprehensive evaluation of cocaine and opiate abusers -- Evaluation of the geriatric patient -- Diagnostic approaches to sexuality in the medically ill -- Laboratory assessment of the paraphilias and their treatment with antiandrogenic medication -- The endorphins -- Computerized psychiatric practice -- Positron emission transaxial tomography.