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"This book offers a developmental neuroendocrinologically-oriented perspective in the area of specialized psychiatric care for men termed ""Men's Mental Health."" This book collates the contributions of over 40 authors in the field of men's mental health throughout 24 chapters in an attempt to overview the emerging developments in this field. Developmental neurobiology serves as the central organizational factor for this four-sectioned book. In the first section, the developmental neurobiological perspective is introduced and considerations specific to men's mental health in infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents are discussed. In the second section, the relevance of men's mental health to informed suicide and homicide prevention among men are presented. The third section reviews major mental illness in men, while the last section provides an overview of the intersection of men's mental health with general medical conditions and the future directions for the field. This collection gathers the latest writings from authors around the world in this field and will be of value for clinicians and researchers interested in an increasingly-popular approach to providing neurobiologically-tailored care for men."

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Leo Sher, MD is a psychiatrist with a background in internal medicine. His areas of research and clinical expertise include neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment of mood, anxiety, and personality disorders, alcoholism, and suicidal behavior. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Inpatient Psychiatry Service at the James J Peters VA Medical Center in New York. He has authored about 600 scientific publications, is a reviewer for numerous medical journals, the recipient of several awards and the first researcher in North America who introduced the use of the combined dexamethasone suppression/corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test for psychiatric purposes. Dr. Sher has experience as a forensic psychiatric expert and consultant. Timothy Rice, M.D., is a clinical fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He attained his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale University and his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He completed his residency in general psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a former fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His research interests include the development and implementation of a brain-based psychotherapy program targeted to the psychobiology and developmental deficits of high risk male children, pre-adolescents, and adolescents.

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