Andres Kanner, MD, Professor of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Rush Medical College at Rush University; Director, Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video-EEG-Telemetry; Associate Director, Section of Epilepsy and Rush Epilepsy Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.Professor Andres Kanner was educated in Mexico City but completed his training at the prestigious College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. He specialized in psychiatry but took a special interest in neurologic disease, in particular epilepsy. As a result he is triple boarded in neurology, psychiatry and clinical neurophysiology. His research has focused on the surgical and pharmacologic treatment of refractory epilepsy and has become an internationally recognized authority in psychiatric issues in epilepsy.He has authored more than 100 articles and has co-edited textbooks on various aspects of epilepsy, psychiatry and depression.

• Contributors viiForeword viiiPreface xAcknowledgments xiiPart One: General ConsiderationsChapter 1 Depression in Neurologic Disorders: Why Should Neurologists Care? 3Andres M. KannerChapter 2 Neurobiological Aspects of Depression: How Do They Affect Neurologic Disorders? 10Hrvoje HecimovicChapter 3 Idiopathic Depressive Disorders: Basic Principles 28John J. BarryChapter 4 Screening Instruments for Depression in Neurologic Disorders: Their Application in the Clinic and in Research 39Andres M. Kanner and Angela Strobel ParsonsChapter 5 Suicidality in Neurologic Diseases 52Yukari Tadokoro and Andres M. KannerChapter 6 Neuropsychological Aspects of Depression: Their Relevance in Depression in Neurologic Disorders 64Erica J. Kalkut and Christopher L. GroteChapter 7 Depressive Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Neurologic Disorders 77Rochelle CaplanChapter 8 Basic Principles in the Management of Depression in Neurologic Disorders 94Marco MulaPart Two: Depression and Neurologic DisordersChapter 9 Depression and Migraine 105Joan Roig LlesuyChapter 10 Poststroke Depression 116Andres M. KannerChapter 11 Depressive Disorders in Epilepsy 126Andres M. KannerChapter 12 Depression and Movement Disorders 145Oliver Tüscher and Ludger Tebartz van ElstChapter 13 Depression and Multiple Sclerosis 157Dana J. Serafi n, Deborah M. Weisbrot, and Alan B. EttingerChapter 14 Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease 177Pablo Richly, Facundo Manes, and Julián BustinChapter 15 Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury 189Seth A. Mensah and Michael P. KerrIndex 207Color plate section is found facing page 20