Recent Advances in Schizophrenia / by Anthony Kales, Costas N. Stefanis, John A. Talbott.

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Main Author: Kales, Anthony
Other Authors: Stefanis, C. N. (Costas N.), Talbott, John A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1990.
Series:International Perspectives Series: Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Conceptualization of Schizophrenia
  • 1. Schizophrenia: Historical Perspectives
  • 2. On the Concept of Schizophrenia
  • 3. Modular Disjunction in Schizophrenia: A Framework for a Pathological Psychophysiology
  • 4. Meaning of Structural Changes in the Brain in Schizophrenia
  • 5. Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Schizophrenia
  • II. Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia
  • 6. Risk Factors in Schizophrenia: Interaction Between Genetic Liability and Environmental Factors
  • 7. The Role of Molecular Genetics in Psychiatry: Unraveling the Etiology for Schizophrenia
  • 8. Diagnostic Advances in Anatomical and Functional Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia
  • 9. Risk Factors and Prevention in Schizophrenia
  • 10. Psychosocial Interventions in Schizophrenia
  • 11. Clozapine: Mechanism of Action in Relation to its Clinical Advantages
  • 12. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Schizophrenia
  • III. Delivery Systems for Managing Schizophrenic Patients
  • 13. Current Perspectives in the United States on the Chronically Mentally III
  • 14. Policy on Chronic Mental Illness in Canada: Current Status and Future Directions
  • 15. Psychiatric Reform in Italy: Implications for the Treatment of Long-Term Schizophrenic Patients
  • 16. Mental Health Services and New Research in England: Implications for the Community Management of Schizophrenia
  • 17. Delivery Systems for the Care of Schizophrenic Patients in Africa
  • Sub-Sahara
  • 18. Delivery Systems and Research for Schizophrenia in China
  • Author Index.