Chapter 7
The Vertically Organized Brain in Clinical Psychiatric Disorders
This chapter focuses on the idea that the DSM is a behaviorally defined diagnostic system that is not anatomically organized. Most clinical disorders are the product of abnormalities at the cortical, basal ganglia, and cerebellar levels.
Several conditions are reviewed as models of brain-behavior relationships. The role of neuropsychological evaluation is seen as elucidating the nature of brain-behavior relationships in clinical conditions, accomplishing this through a descriptive nomenclature.