This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Andy Jagoda and Silvana Riggio will discuss a number of important topics surrounding Sports Psychiatry. This issue is one of four each year selected by our series consulting editor, Dr. Harsh Trivedi of Sheppard Pratt Health System. Topics in this issue include: Defining the Role of the Sport Psychiatrist, Achieving Peak Performance, The pathophysiology of brain injury and behavior, Traumatic Brain Injury and its Behavioral Sequelae, Anxiety, Substance abuse and its impact on performance, Sports Psychiatry and its Research Agenda, Motivation and burnout in sports, Nutrition, Eating Disorders and Behavior in the Athlete, Approach to Sleep Disturbances in the Athletes, Depression Assessment: Challenges and Treatment Strategies in the Athlete, Selection /Interview Criteria for Drafting Players, and Concussion in Youth.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a common injury, with an increasing number of patients presenting after military combat overseas.? With greater frequency, psychiatrists are being asked to treat the psychiatric sequelae of TBI.? This issue brings together neurologists and psychiatrists to examine TBI from every angle.? Among the many topics discussed are pathophysiology of TBI; blast injury and the brain; mild TBI: acute diagnosis and management; neuroimaging in TBI; neuropsycological assessment of frontal lobe injury; role of neurofeedback in TBI; neurobehavioral sequelae of TBI; TBI and the war in Iraq; neurorehavilitation; role and impact of cognitive rehabilitation; personalized medicine in asymptomatic TBI; medical legal issues and TBI.

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, devoted to?Seizures, will focus on topics such as: Seizure in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and Cost to Society; Seizure and Status Epilepticus: Pathophysiology and Definitions; The Diagnosis and Management of Seizures and Status Epilepticus in the Pre-hospital Setting; The Emergency Department Evaluation of the Patients Who Present with a First Time Seizure; Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus: Treatment Guidelines and Protocols; Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus; Antiepileptic Drugs: The Old and the New; Seizures in Pregnancy/Eclampsia and Psychogenic Seizures.

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