Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia Volume V

Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia Volume V / edited by W.F. Gattaz, H. Häfner.

This volume is a compilation of the presentations and discus­ sions, arranged in a systematic manner, of the fifth symposium on the Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia, held in Guarujal Brazil in April, 2003. The meetings look back on a great tradi­ tion. The first symposium, held in 1986 on the...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gattaz, W.F (Editor), Häfner, H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Steinkopff : Imprint: Steinkopff, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy   .
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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