Schizophrenia (eBook, ePUB)

The Science of Mental Health
Redaktion: Hyman, Steven E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136761324
• Artikelnr.: 41214264

Autorenporträt

Steven E. Hyman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Overview
Catching Up on Schizophrenia: Natural History and Neurobiology
A Unitary Model of Schizophrenia
Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia
Epidemiology
Lifetime Prevalence
Demographic Risk Factors
and Diagnostic Validity of Nonaffective Psychosis as Assessed in a US Community Sample
Obstetric Complications and the Risk of Schizophrenia
Effects of Family History and Place and Season of Birth on the Risk of Schizophrenia
Genetics
The Types and Prevalence of Mental Illness in the Biological and Adoptive Families of Adopted Schizophrenics
An Independent Analysis of the Danish Adoption Study of Schizophrenia
Genetics of Schizophrenia and the New Millennium: Progress and Pitfalls
Effect of COMT Val 108/158 Met Genotype on Frontal Lobe Function and Risk of Schizophrenia
Natural History
Epidemiology and Natural History of Schizophrenia
Stability and Course of Neuropsychological Deficits in Schizophrenia
Predictors of Relapse following Response from a First Episode of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder
Brain Development
Progressive Cortical Change during Adolescence in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal MagneticResonance Imaging Study
Childhood Onset Psychotic Disorders: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Volumetric Differences in Brain Structure
Neurobiology of Disease
Lamina-Specific Alterations in the Dopamine Innervation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenic Subjects
Absence of Neurodegeneration and Neural Injury in the Cerebral Cortex in a Sample of Elderly Patients with Schizophrenia
Selective Deficits in Prefrontal Cortex Function in Medication-Naive Patients with Schizophrenia
Thalamic Volumes in Patients with First-Episode Schizophrenia
Decreased Dendritic Spine Density on Prefrontal Cortical Pyramidal Neurons in Schizophrenia
The Emerging Role of Glutamate in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Schizophrenia
Cortical Abnormalities in Schizophrenia Identified by Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The Neuropathology of Schizophrenia: A Critical Review of the Data and Their Interpretation
Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography Imaging of Amphetamine-Induced Dopamine Release in DrugFree Schizophrenic Subjects
Compromised White Matter Tract Integrity in Schizophrenia Inferred from Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Decreased Prefrontal Dopamine D1 Receptors in Schizophrenia Revealed by PET
Neuronal and Glial Somal Size in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Postmortem Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia and Huntington Disease
The Reduced Neuropil Hypothesis: A Circuit Based Model of Schizophrenia
Anatomical Abnormalities in the Brains of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia
Treatment
The Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Update
Reversal of Antipsychotic-Induced Working Memory Deficits by Short-Term Dopamine D1 Receptor Stimulation
Clozapine for the Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenic: A Double-Blind Comparison with Chlorpromazine
Clinical and Theoretical Implications of 5-HT2 and D2 Receptor Occupancy of Clozapine
Risperidone
and Olanzapine in Schizophrenia
Antipsychotic Treatment Induces Alterations in Dendrite- and Spine-Associated Proteins in Dopamine-Rich Areas of the Primate Cerebral Cortex
Age at Onset and Gender of Schizophrenic Patients in Relation to Neuroleptic Resistance
Acknowledgments