Neuropsychiatry

UMass offers a variety of training at the interface of psychiatry and neurology, including a six year combined neuropsychiatry residency program and a one year clinical fellowship in Neuropsychiatry. UMass Neuropsychiatry training resources include state-of-the-art EEG, MRI, PET, and brain SPECT imaging facilities; neuropsychological evaluation; active epilepsy surgery and deep brain stimulation programs; adult and child neurodevelopmental disabilities clinics; several outpatient neuropsychiatry clinics; and a large neuropsychiatric sciences research program (the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, the Center for Comparative Neuroimaging) with projects of interest to neuropsychiatry.

Neuropsychiatric Education

Amazon Listmanias (annotated book lists) by Dr. Benjamin

Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychiatric Assessment I: Mental Status Examination
Neuropsychiatric Assessment II: Neurological Examination

Publications on Neuropsychiatric Education

BrainCard Brain Educators LLC
Publishers of The Brain Card^®, a comprehensive neuropsychiatric examination on 6 double-sided pocket cards. The Brain Card^® was created by Dr. Benjamin and former UMass Neuropsychiatry Fellow, Margo Lauterbach, MD, now with Sheppard Pratt Health System. The Brain Educators website contains numerous free neuropsychiatric resources and extensive cognitive status assessment instructions for registered owners of The Brain Card^®.