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Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and puzzling diseases to affect mankind. For the average practising psychiatrist seeing schizophrenics on a regular basis, making sense of the vast body of information on the subject and filtering out what is of clinical relevance can be very difficult. It is to these doctors that Schizophrenia is aimed. The book consists of four sections; descriptive aspects, causative aspects, physical treatments, and psychological, behavioural, and social treatments. The Editors are both highly respected clinical psychiatrists who are leading experts on schizophrenia. They have

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Part I: Descriptive Aspects:; Concepts of schizophrenia; Descriptive psychopathology; Positive and Negative Symptoms; Schizoaffective Disorder; Atypical Psychotic Disorders; Late-Life Schizophrenia; The Schizophrenia Spectrum Personality Disorders; Course and outcome of schizophrenia; Depression and schizophrenia; Neurocognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia and the risks of violence; Part II: Biological Aspects:; Risk factors for schizophrenia: from conception to birth; Schizophrenia: the epidemiological horizon; Genetics and Schizophrenia; The Neuropathology of schizophrenia; Schizophrenia as a Neurodevelopment Disorder; The secondary schizophrenias; The Clinical Psychopharmacology of Antipsychotic Drugs in schizophrenia; The Neurochemistry of Schizophrenia; The Dopamine Theory Revisited; Animal Neuropharmacology and Its Prediction of Clinical Response; Brain Imaging; Part III: Physical Treatments:; The Clinical Treatment of Schizophrenia with Antipsychotic Medication; Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia; Atypical antipsychotic drug therapy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; Electroconvulsive Therapy and Schizophrenia; Neuroleptic-induced acute extrapyramidal syndromes and tardive dyskinesia; Non-neurological side effects of antipsychotic agents; Part IV: Psychosocial Aspects:; Schizophrenia and Psychosocial Stresses; Cognitive-behavioural therapies in psychiatiric rehabilitation; Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia; Community care: parts and systems; Homelessness and schizophrenia; Appendices; Author Index; Subject Index

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."this is an excellent book, drawing together a vast range of knowledge...It is a must for medical and university libraries, some chapters should be read by all psychiatric trainees and it ought to be on the shelves of any jobbing psychiatrists." Frank Holloway, Psychological Medicine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780632032761
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Science Ltd
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0632032766
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1724 gr


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