Schizophrenia

"Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and disabling diseases to affect mankind. Relatively little is known about its nature and its origins, and available treatments are inadequate for most patients. As a result, there are inevitable controversies about what causes it, how to diagnose it, and how best to treat it. However, in the past decade, there has been an explosion of new research, with dramatic discoveries involving genetic etiology and epidemiological risk factors. There has also been a catalog of new drugs coming to market, and controversy about the relative advantages and disadvantages of newer compared with older therapies. In addition, developing technologies in genomics, molecular biology and neuroimaging provide streams of new information"--Back cover.

pt. 1 Descriptive Aspects -- 1. Concept of schizophrenia: past, present, and future / Nancy C. Andreasen -- 2. schizophrenia construct: symptomatic presentation / William T. Carpenter -- 3. Child and adolescent schizophrenia / Judith Rapoport -- 4. Late-onset schizophrenia / Dilip Jeste -- 5. schizophrenia spectrum personality disorders / Larry J. Siever -- 6. prodrome of schizophrenia / Shon W. Lewis -- 7. Course and outcome / Heinz Hafner -- 8. Neurocognitive impairments in schizophrenia: their character and role in symptom formation / James M. Gold -- pt. 2 Biological Aspects -- 9. secondary schizophrenias / Maria A. Ron -- 10. Schizophrenia: the epidemiological horizon / Peter B. Jones -- 11. Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia / Robin M. Murray -- 12. Classical genetic studies of schizophrenia / Kenneth S. Kendler -- 13. Genetic associations in schizophrenia / Michael J. Owen -- 14. Intermediate phenotypes in genetic studies of schizophrenia / Tyrone D. Cannon -- 15. Electrophysiology of schizophrenia / Robert W. McCarley -- 16. Structural brain imaging in schizophrenia and related populations / Christos Pantclis -- 17. Functional brain imaging in schizophrenia / Edw…