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Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia: Volume V

Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia: Volume V

Hsfner, Heinz
Hafner, Heinz
Gattaz, Wagner F.

Hardcover

Series: Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3798514518
ISBN13: 9783798514515
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 488
Weight: 2.14
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
List of Contents.- Section 1 - Epidemiology and environment.- Schizophrenia and migration.- Childhood meningitis and adult schizophrenia.- The course and outcome of schizophrenia: toward a new social biology of psychosis.- Psychotic features in the general population.Risk factors for what?.- Discussion: Epidemiology and environment.- Section 2 - Precursors of schizophrenia.- Early developmental abnormalities - risk for what?.- Are there specific risk factors for schizophrenia?.- Risk factors for schizophrenia in adolescents.- Cannabis as a causal factor for psychosis - a review of the evidence.- Discussion: Schizophrenia - diverse etiologies, common pathogenesis.- Section 3 - Pathophysiological mechanisms.- Genetic liability, brain structure and symptoms of schizophrenia.- The hippocampus and schizophrenia.- Neuroimaging studies of auditory verbal hallucinations.- Gender differences in schizophrenia.- Section 4 - Genetics.- Searching for inherited causes for schizophrenia: has progress been made?.- Gene expression in psychotic disorders: dissecting the genetic basis of complex neuropsychiatric disorders.- Brain morphological abnormalities in first-degree relatives of schizophrenic patients.- Genetics of schizophrenia and the impact of neuropsychology.- Human genome and the perspectives for schizophrenia.- Discussion: The genetics of psychosis is the genetics of the speciation of Homo sapiens.- Section 5 - Controversies in schizophrenia.- Criminal and antisocial behaviours and schizophrenia: a neglected topic.- The aetiological continuum of psychosis.- When does structural brain change appear in schizophrenia and is it clinically relevant?.- Schizophrenia: developmental, degenerative or both?.- Schizophrenia as a progressive developmental disorder: the evidence and its implications.- Controversies in schizophrenia research: the 'continuum' challenge, heterogeneity vs homogeneity, and lifetime developmental-'neuroprogressive' trajectory.- Section 6 - Treatment.- What can psychological treatments say about causes in schizophrenia?.- Intervention in the prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia and related disorders: towards effective and safe strategies for earliest intervention in psychotic disorders.- What can molecular imaging tell us about schizophrenia?.- Schizophrenia: treatment issues in the 21stcentury.

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