Schizophrenia, 3rd edition represents a definitive, essential, and up-to-date reference handbook on schizophrenia.

The book consists of four sections:

Descriptive Aspects
Biological Aspects
Physical Treatments
Psychological and Social Aspects

Coverage includes:

• the theoretical controversies over symptomatology, classification and aetiology (particularly pertinent as DSM-V is being developed)
• the relationship of schizophrenia to the other psychoses
• the significance of positive and negative symptoms
• pre-morbid personality
• the comparative efficacy of various drugs
• the management of drug-resistant patients
• neurological and metabolic complications
• and more!

Contents

Part 1 Descriptive Aspects

1. The concept of schizophrenia: past, present, and future
2. The schizophrenia construct: symptomatic presentation
3. Child and adolescent schizophrenia
4. Late onset schizophrenia
5. The Schizophrenia Spectrum Personality Disorders
6. The prodome of schizophrenia
7. Course and outcome
8. Neurocognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia: Their Character and Their Role in Symptom Formation

Part 2 Biological Aspects

9. The secondary schizophrenias
10. Schizophrenia: The epidemiological horizon
11. Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia
12. Classical Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia
13. Genetic Associations in Schizophrenia
14. Intermediate phenotypes and genetic origins
15. Electrophysiology of schizophrenia
16. Structural Brain Imaging in schizophrenia and related populations
17. Functional Brain Imaging in schizophrenia
18. Neuropathology of schizophrenia
19. Schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder
20. Dopamine and Schizophrenia
21. Contributions of glutamate and GABA systems to the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia
22. Animal Models of schizophrenia

Part 3 Biological Treatments

23. The pharmacology and neuroscience of antipsychotic drugs
24. Principles of pharmacological treatment in schizophrenia
25. Comparative efficacy and effectiveness in the drug treatment of schizophrenia
26. Approaches to treatment resistant patients
27. Neurological complications of antipsychotic drugs
28. Metabolic and other side effects

Part 4 Psychsocial Aspects

29. Schizophrenia and psychosocial stress
30. Mental health services for schizophrenia patients
31. Societal Outcomes in Schizophrenia
32. Psychological treatment of psychosis
33. Economics of the treatment of schizophrenia

Index

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