Neuropsychiatry. Cognitive disorders. Petrova N., Dorofeykova M.

Cognitive functions include many processes, including attention, decision-making, executive functions, problem-decommiting behavior, language and memory. Cognitive disorders accompany many mental disorders and determine the degree of functional recovery, everyday and social adaptation, therefore their diagnosis and correction are seemed to be the necessary tasks in the framework of healthcare.

The leadership reveals the concept of cognitive disorders as an actual interdisciplinary problem, the diagnostic methods are described, cognitive disorders are given and approaches to therapy for various mental disorders are given. The book contains a psychological workshop with modern methods for studying cognitive impairment, a description of their neurobiological foundations.

The publication is intended for specialists working in the field of mental health, psychoneurology, and can also be recommended for continuous professional education of psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, and medical psychologists. Management can be used in the educational process in the preparation of medical students in the direction of the "medical business", residents in the specialty "psychiatry" and graduate students in the specialty "Psychiatry and narcology".