Books in the Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry series

Brings together reviews and empirical papers regarding the cognitive and neural basis of emotional processing in health and disease, written by renowned researchers in the field. This book addresses clinical conditions, including amygdala damage, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, social phobia, psychopathy and alexithymia.

Neuropsychiatry stands to benefit enormously from the research framework afforded by the sequencing of the human genome and from examining the role of molecular genetics on the clinical presentation of psychiatric patients. This title gives an introduction to some important findings and implications with emphasis on cognition and mental health.

This special issue of Cogntive Neuropsychiatry is devoted to the problem of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs): the experience of "hearing voices".

Brings together timely reviews and new empirical papers concerning the relationships between emotion, the brain and psychiatric symptoms.