Chapter 14: Encephalitis

Encephalitis is infectious inflammation of the brain. The following types may be provisionally distinguished: (a) primary encephalitis with direct infection of the brain, and (b) secondary encephalitis, caused by various general infections.     

Chapter 11: Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a disease whose chief symptoms are seizures and other convulsive disorders of neuropsychopathic activity, predominantly in the form of disorders of consciousness. In an adversely progressing illness, changes in the personality and intellect arise, forming the peculiar picture of epileptic dementia.     

Chapter 1: Introduction

This chapter provides an overview of the statutes that are the subject of this book-the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA), the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention) and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA).     

Chapter 10: Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disease often encountered by both general and forensic psychiatrists.     

Chapter 21: Psychopathy

Psychopathy is a pathologic state characterized by a disharmony primarily in the emotional and volitional aspects of the personality in which the intellect remains relatively intact.     

Chapter 6: Modification Jurisdiction

This chapter explains the rules governing modification jurisdiction, focusing on the exclusive continuing jurisdiction provision of the federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 28 U.S.C. 1738A(d). In every interstate child custody case where modification of an existing custody decree is at issue, courts should determine the effect of the PKPA's exclusive continuing jurisdiction rule on the exercise of jurisdiction. Have counsel address the applicability of the PKPA either orally or in a brief.     

Chapter 12: Manic-depressive Psychosis

Manic-depressive psychosis is a disease that occurs in the form of attacks of manic and depressive states or phases between which the patient reverts to normal. The alternation of phases may vary both in frequency and in form. Some patients may have rare attacks, whereas in others the attacks are frequent. Sometimes the manic and depressive states occur in regular sequence; in other cases, only manic or only depressive states may occur.     

Chapter 16: Cerebrovascular Diseases

Mental disorders of vascular origin are observed chiefly in cerebral atherosclerosis and hypertension.     

Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Lesions

Cranial traumas are often encountered in wartime. The statistics of different countries show a rise in the frequency of traumas in the past few decades. This is understandable considering the development of all types of transportation and the widespread use of machines in agriculture and industry.     

Chapter 23: Simulation of Mental Disorders

Simulation of mental illnesses is the conscious feigning of a mental illness for a definite purpose.     

Chapter 9: Symptoms of Mental Disorders

Three aspects of human mental activity, all of which are inseparably interconnected, may be provisionally distinguished: (1) intellectual processes governing cognitive activity; (2) emotions, through which are manifested a person's attitude toward his surroundings and toward the objects of his thought; and (3) volitional processes, which are intimately associated with human activity.