Psychiatry and Heart Disease : The Mind, Brain, and Heart

This unique book will help psychiatrists to understand better the risks of cardiovascular illness and cardiologists to appreciate possible pathophysiological links with psychiatric conditions. It describes the common psychiatric conditions, their key features and how they may influence cardiovascular disease, outcomes, and quality of life. It also considers the cardiovascular complications that may arise as a result of mental illness. In an exciting, collaborative approach, psychiatrists and cardiologists combine their expertise throughout the book to provide guidance on the best way to manage such patients, considering the patient as a whole, not the individual conditions.Content: Chapter 1 The Interaction Between Psychologic Distress and Biobehavioral Processes in Cardiovascular Disease (pages 1–17): Willem J. Kop and John S. GottdienerChapter 2 Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases (pages 18–33): Kevin B. Kerber and Melvyn RubenfireChapter 3 Depression, Anxiety, Anger, and Heart Failure (pages 34–48): Oliver G. Cameron, Daniel Ehrmann and Bertram PittChapter 4 Cardiac Surgery (pages 49–61): Rima Styra, Christopher M. Feindel and Marion E. McRaeChapter 5 Cardiac Transplantation and Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Pre?Assessment and Post?Management (pages 62–76): Rachel Lipson Glic, David Bradley S. Dyke, Moira Kessler and Dayna J. LePlatteChapter 6 Psychiatric Aspects of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Implantable Cardioverter?Defibrillators (pages 77–87): Divy Ravindranath and Frank PelosiChapter 7 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Psychosocial Implications and Treatment (pages 88–98): John M. Wryobeck and Melvyn RubenfireChapter 8 Distinguishing Cardiac from Psychologic Somatic Symptoms (pages 99–105): Nicholas D. Giardino and Michael J. SheaChapter 9 Hypertrophic Cardiomopathy (pages 106–115): Moira Kessler, Sara Saberi, Sharlene Day, Tamara Gay, Linda Baty and C. Edward DenekeChapter 10 Bipolar Disorder and Reducing Risk for Cardiovascular Disease (pages 116–134): Amy M. Kilbourne and David E. GoodrichChapter 11 Sleep and Cardiovascular Disease (pages 135–152): Sanjaya Gupta and Todd ArnedtChapter 12 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Heart Disease (pages 153–164): Leonard A. Doerfler and John A. ParaskosChapter 13 Cardiovascular Manifestations of Panic and Anxiety (pages 166–175): Steven M. Schwartz, Oliver G. Cameron and Melvyn RubenfireChapter 14 Genetic Susceptibility and the Relationship between Cardiovascular Disease, Immunology, and Psychiatric Illness (pages 176–193): Sandra Villafuerte, Melvyn Rubenfire and Ziad KronfolChapter 15 Psychological Symptoms Associated with Cardiovascular Drugs; Cardiac Symptoms from Psychiatric Drugs; Drug Interactions (pages 194–210): Steven R. Erickson, Jolene R. Bostwick and Sally K. GuthrieChapter 16 Exercise and Depression (pages 211–222): Barry A. Franklin, Justin E. Trivax and Thomas E. VanheckeChapter 17 Psychosocial Interventions: Meditation (pages 223–231): Sandra M. Finkel and Elizabeth A. JacksonChapter 18 Smoking Cessation and Substance Use Modification in Cardiovascular Disease (pages 232–240): Gregory W. Dalack and Elizabeth A. Jackson Psychiatry and Heart Disease is a pioneering book connecting the heart and brain, from basic science to clinical management of conditions that affect millions of patients around the world. The interplay between psychiatric problems, particularly depression, and cardiovascular disease, with each increasing susceptibility to the other, has been established in recent years. This unique book features chapters co-authored by psychiatrists and cardiovascular specialists , combining their expertise to provide guidance on the best way to manage such patients, considering the patient as a whole, not the individual conditions.

The book starts with the association between cardiovascular risk factors, heart diseases, and psychological distress. It then describes important psychiatric issues that arise in patients undergoing cardiac transplantation, following resuscitated sudden death, after implantation of defibrillator devices, and in patients with pulmonary hypertension.

The second half of the book addresses the differences between symptoms of cardiovascular and psychological disorders, the management of the patient with bipolar disorder, the relationship of sleep with cardiovascular disease, and post traumatic stress syndrome. A common problem, cardiovascular manifestations of patients with panic and anxiety syndromes, is covered in exquisite detail. Lastly, the authors have offered interesting discussions on genetic susceptibility, psychosocial symptoms from medications and psychiatric drugs, and the contributions of exercise, fitness and smoking cessation.

Each chapter contains basic information on the cardiovascular problem aimed at the psychiatrist and basic information on the psychiatric problems aimed at the cardiologists and primary care clinicians. The pathobiology of the interaction between psychological and cardiovascular disorders is reviewed within each chapter. The book is clinically oriented, including short vignettes, and summary points for quick review.

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Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations. This text adequately applies the research undertaken during the last 15 years on the topic. Desertification has become increasingly politicized and there is a need to present and explain the facts from a global perspective. This book tackles the issues surrounding desertification in a number of ways from differing scales (local to global), processes (physical to human), the relationship of desertification to current global development and management responses at different scales. Desertification has been mainstreamed and integrated into other areas of concern and has consequently been ignored as a cross cutting issue. The book redresses this balance. Making use of much original data and information that has been undertaken by many scientists andpractitioners during the last decade in different parts of the world, Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability is organised according to the principles of adaptive management and hierarchy theory and clearly explains desertification within a framework of evolving and interacting physical and socio-economic systems. In addition to research data the book also draws from the National Action Plans of different countries, the IPCC Fourth Assessment on Climate Change and the Millennium assessments. Clearly structured throughout, the content of the book is organised at different scales; local, regional and global. It also specifically explains processes linking top-down and bottom- up interactions and has a strong human component. The historical, cultural and physical context is also stressed. Clearly organised into the following distinct sections: a) Concepts and processes b) Data c) Impacts d) Responses e) Case studies. This text is essential for anyone studying desertification as part of an earth and environmental science degree. The interaction between psychological distress and biobehavioral processes in cardiovascular disease / Willem J. Kop, John S. Gottdiener -- Depression and cardiovascular diseases / Kevin B. Kerber, Melvyn Rubenfire -- Depression, anxiety, anger, and heart failure / Oliver G. Cameron, Bertram Pitt, Daniel Ehrmann -- Cardiac surgery / Rima Styra ... [et al.] -- Cardiac transplantation and left ventricular assist devices : pre-assessment and post-management / Rachel Lipson Glick ... [et al.] -- Psychiatric aspects of sudden cardiac arrest and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators / Divy Ravindranath, Frank Pelosi -- Pulmonary arterial hypertension : psychosocial implications and treatment / John M. Wryobeck, Melvyn Rubenfire -- Distinguishing cardiac from psychological somatic symptoms / Nicholas D. Giardino, Michael J. Shea -- Hypertrophic cardiomopathy / Moira Kessler ... [et al.] -- Bipolar disorder and reducing risk for cardiovascular disease / Amy M. Kilbourne, David E. Goodrich -- Sleep and cardiovascular disease / Sanjaya Gupta, J. Todd Arnedt -- Post traumatic stress disorder and heart disease / Leonard A. Doerfler, John A. Paraskos -- Cardiovascular manifestations of panic and anxiety -- M. Schwartz, Oliver Cameron, Melvyn Rubenfire -- Cardiovascular manifestations of panic and anxiety / Steven M. Schwartz, Oliver G. Cameron -- Genetic susceptibility and the relationship between cardiovascular disease, immunology, and psychiatric illness / Sandra Villafuerte, Melvyn Rubenfire, Ziad Kronfol -- Exercise and depression / Barry A. Franklin, Justin E. Trivax, Thomas E. Vanhecke -- Psychosocial interventions : meditation / Elizabeth A.R. Robinson, Sandra M. Finkel, Elizabeth A. Jackson -- Smoking cessation and substance use modification in cardiovascular disease / Gregory W. Dalack, Elizabeth A. Jackson Many patients with cardiovascular disease also experience psychiatric symptoms and distress. Patients with psychiatric problems, particularly depression, may be more susceptible to cardiovascular disorders. In addition, some drugs used in psychiatric treatment themselves cause metabolic disturbance.