Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

"This second edition of Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science is substantially revised from the first edition published in 2012. In the intervening decade, an explosion of research and publication related to laboratory science and psychiatry has left virtually no subject area untouched. As with the first edition, this manual is designed to assist psychiatrists and other behavioral health clinicians in the care of adult psychiatric patients across a wide range of settings. Among the thousands of laboratory tests available, tests that were selected for inclusion met one or more of the following criteria: a core or basic laboratory test for any patient; a test that is particularly pertinent to psychiatry or behavioral health; or a test that is new to medicine and potentially of interest in the field of behavioral health, including geriatrics. Diseases and conditions selected for inclusion were those for which laboratory tests are primary or important in diagnosis or differential diagnosis; those that are core or common conditions among psychiatric or geriatric patients; and those that have important psychiatric, cognitive, or behavioral consequences. The appendixes contain several algorithms, tables, and figures that may be useful in understanding and interpreting various laboratory tests and their underlying biology"--