Neuropsychiatry Lectures
These lectures by Dr. Joanne Alonso Byars cover a range of neuropsychiatric topics, focusing on how brain systems give rise to cognitive and psychiatric symptoms and how to apply this understanding to real-world diagnosis and treatment. They reflect our clinical approach, emphasizing careful diagnostic reasoning, awareness of underlying neurologic conditions, and integration of psychiatric and neurologic perspectives.
Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Part 1
Foundations of TBI, including mechanisms, acute effects, and common symptoms in the early recovery period.
Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Part 2
Longer-term cognitive and psychiatric outcomes after TBI, with clinical management strategies.
Post-Stroke Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Common psychiatric and cognitive complications following stroke, with emphasis on diagnosis and treatment.
Do Anticholinergic Drugs Cause Dementia?
Review of the growing evidence that many commonly used medications may increase the risk of dementia, and how to reduce the use of these drugs.
Language and Aphasia
How language works in the brain, and what can happen when these systems are disrupted—for example, difficulty speaking, understanding, or finding words.
Neurologic Neglect
Diagnosis and treatment of neurologic neglect, a condition that causes reduced awareness of one side of the body or environment (most often the left) and that can significantly affect daily functioning.
Disorders of Visual Cognition
How the brain processes visual information, and what happens when this system is disrupted, leading to difficulty recognizing objects, faces, or familiar places.
Disorders of Body Representation
How the brain constructs a sense of the body, and what can happen when this is disrupted—for example, feeling that a limb doesn’t belong to you or moves without your control.
Memory
How memory works, the different ways it can be affected, and how these patterns help in diagnosing conditions like dementia.
Bayes’ Theorem, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Neuropsychiatry
How clinicians can improve diagnostic accuracy by considering how common different conditions are and how well the patient’s symptoms actually fit.