Andreas Marneros / Hagop S. Akiskal (eds.)

The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra

Herausgeber: Marneros, Andreas; Akiskal, Hagop S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international team of experts discuss aspects of comorbidity, genetic models, clinical course, phenomenology and therapies. This is the first comprehensive overview of the schizoaffective spectra. Challenging cases presenting clinical and paraclinical features of both spectra are surprisingly numerous. Not only the phenomenology but also the course, outcome and treatment of such cases have their own characteristics. Recent research shows that the overlap also involves genetics and biological processes related to psychotic disorders. Within the overlap of affective and schizophrenic spectra it is possible to identify some groups of disorders having similar clinical and non-clinical features: the 'schizoaffective' group, 'Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder' or 'Brief Psychosis', and other groups found in so-called 'Atypical Forms'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858588
• ISBN-10: 0521858585
• Artikelnr.: 22703139

Autorenporträt

Andreas Marneros is Professor and Head of the Psychiatric Department of the Martin Luther University Halle, Germany
Hagop S. Akiskal is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the International Mood Center, University of California at San Diego

Inhaltsangabe

1. The paradigms of the overlapping of the affective and schizophrenic
spectra: schizo-affective conditions Andreas Marneros; 2. The overlapping
of the spectra: overlapping genes and genetic models John R. Kelsoe; 3. The
continuum of psychosis and its genetic basis T. J. Crow; 4. Functional
psychoses - molecular-genetic evidence for a continuum Hans H. Stassen,
Christian Scharfetter and Jules Angst; 5. State- and trait-related deficits
in sustained attention in bipolar disorder: are there any overlaps with
schizophrenia? Luke Clark; 6. The concept of schizoaffective disorder -
utility versus validity and reliability: a transcultural perspective Ahmed
Okasha; 7. Phenomenological approaches to the schizoaffective spectrum
William Coryell; 8. Clinical course of schizoaffective disorders M.
Reinares, E. Vieta, A. Benabarre and A. Marneros; 9. Depressive syndromes
in schizophrenia Wolfgang Gaebel, Ellen Bittner and Wolfgang Wölwer; 10.
The overlapping of the spectra - brief and acute psychoses Frank Pillmann
and Andreas Marneros; 11. Overlapping of the spectra: physical comorbidity
between schizophrenia and affective disorders William S. Stone, Andrea H.
Roe and Ming T. Tsuang; 12. The overlapping of the spectra: suicide Simavi
Vahip; 13. Biological treatment of schizoaffective disorders Christopher
Baethge; 14. Psychological therapies and shizoaffective disorders Jan
Scott; 15. Epilogue: the interface of affective and schizophrenic
disorders: a cross between two spectra? Hagop S. Akiskal.