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Schizophrenia :

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Schizophrenia :

[Book]

Challenging the Orthodox.

Colm McDonald

1st ed

New York

CRC Press

2004. ©2005

(304 pages)

Book Cover --; Title --; Copyright --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Contributors --; 1 Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia and in those at risk of it --; 2 Visualizing the cerebral alterations that underlie auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia --; 3 Can we find the genes that predispose to schizophrenia? --; 4 Genes for schizophrenia can be detected-data from Iceland implicates neuregulin 1 --; 5 Pharmacogenetics is the real future of genetic research in schizophrenia --; 6 Can the social environment cause schizophrenia? --; 7 The paradox of emotional dysfunction in 'non-affective' psychosis --; 8 Risk and protective factors --; 9 What is the relationship between methamphetamine andcannabis abuse and schizophrenia? --; 10 Prediction of psychosis is necessary and possible --; 11 The use of concepts in relation to early intervention in psychosis: a critical discussion --; 12 Is the relationship between duration of untreated psychosis and outcome a result of premorbid deficits? --; 13 Is early intervention a waste of valuable resources? --; 14 Why antipsychotics are anti-'psychotic' --; 15 'Gone to pot': pharmacological evidence supporting the contribution of cannabinoid receptor function to psychosis --; 16 Schizophenia represents a failure to regulate dopamine systems --; 17 Schizophrenia is a disorder of consciousness --; 18 Does cognitive behaviour therapy work in schizophrenia? --; 19 Cognitive remediation is better than cognitive behaviour therapy --; 20 The shared genetic architecture which underlies schizophrenia and bipolar disorder --; 21 Are there structural brain differences between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? --; 22 Functional neural abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: are they similar or different? --; 23 Childhood similarities and differences between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder --; Index.

This book focuses on major current issues in the aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment of schizophrenia, and critically analyses the evidence supporting many of the conventional opinions about the disease.

Schizophrenia -- Etiology -- Congresses.

Schizophrenia -- Research -- Congresses.

Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- Congresses.

Colm McDonald

Colm McDonald

Katja Schulze

Padraig Wright

Robin Murray

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