P J McKenna

Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to provide an authoritative overview of the subject of schizophrenia, including new chapters on the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, cognitive neuropsychology, and schizophrenia and personality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781583919293
• ISBN-10: 1583919295
• Artikelnr.: 22819803

Autorenporträt

P. J. McKenna is a psychiatrist specialising in the treatment of schizophrenia and has published widely on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia. He has worked as both a clinician and academic and is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

David, Foreword. Preface to the second edition. Preface to the first
edition. The cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia. The clinical pictures of
schizophrenia. The natural history of schizophrenia. The diagnosis of
schizophrenia. Aetiological factors in schizophrenia. The neurochemistry of
schizophrenia. The neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia. The
psychology and neuropsychology of schizophrenia. The cognitive
neuropsychology of schizophrenia. Neuroleptic drug treatment. The
management of schizophrenia. Paraphrenia and paranoia. Schizoaffective and
other atypical psychoses. Schizophrenia and organic brain disease.
Childhood schizophrenia, autism and Asperger's syndrome. Schizophrenia and
personality