Epidemiology of Schizophrenia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Murray, Robin M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An international team of leading researchers and clinicians here provide a comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still perplexing disorder, and address some of the key questions it raises. How important in the genetic contribution to schizophrenia? Do pregnancy and birth complications increase the risk for schizophrenia? Is the incidence of schizophrenia changing? Why is the rate higher among immigrants and in those born in cities? Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth, and separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered. Drawing together the findings from social, genetic, developmental and classical epidemiology of schizophrenia, this text will prove an invaluable resource for clinicians and researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060489
• Artikelnr.: 38209725

Autorenporträt

Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Born 31/1/1944.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword William Carpenter; Preface; Part I. The Social Epidemiology of
Schizophrenia: Introduction; 1. Investigating socio-environmental
influences in schizophrenia: conceptual and design issues Michaeline
Bresnahan and Ezra Susser; 2. Geographical variation in incidence, course
and outcome in schizophrenia: a comparison of developing and developed
countries Michealine Bresnahan, Paulo Menezes, Vijoy Varma and Ezra Susser;
3. Temporal variation in the incidence, course and outcome of schizophrenia
Michaeline Bresnahan, Jane Boydell, Robin Murray and Ezra Susser; 4.
Urbanisation, migration and risk of schizophrenia Jane Boydell and Robin
Murray; Part II. The Developmental Epidemiology of Schizophrenia:
Introduction; 5. Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for schizophrenia Mary
Cannon, Robert Kendell, Ezra Susser and Peter Jones; 6. Childhood
development and later schizophrenia: evidence from genetic high risk and
birth cohort studies Mary Cannon, C. Jane Tarrant, Matti O. Huttunen and
Peter Jones; 7. Prodrome, onset and early course of schizophrenia Heinz
Häfner; 8. The value of first-episode studies of schizophrenia Mary Clarke
and Eadbhard O'Callaghan; 9. Schizophrenia at the extremes of life Kenneth
G. D. Orr and David J. Castle; Part III. The Genetic Epidemiology of
Schizophrenia: Introduction; 10. The 'classical' genetic epidemiology of
schizophrenia Alastair Cardno and Robin Murray; 11. Molecular genetics and
epidemiology in schizophrenia: a necessary partnership Stanley Zammit, Glyn
Lewis and Michael J. Owen; 12. Gene-environment correlation and interaction
in schizophrenia Jim van Os and Pak Sham; 13. Investigating
gene-environment interaction in schizophrenia using neuroimaging Theo G. M.
van Erp, Timothy L. Gasperoni, Isabelle M. Rosso and Tyrone D. Cannon; Part
IV. Special Issues in the Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Introduction; 14.
Mortality and physical illness in schizophrenia Preben Bo Mortensen; 15.
The clinical epidemiology of suicide in schizophrenia Hannele Heilä and
Jouko Lönnqvist; 16. What is the relationship between substance abuse and
schizophrenia? Robin Murray, Anton Grech, Peter Phillips and Sonia Johnson;
17. Criminal and violent behaviour in schizophrenia Elizabeth Walsh and
Alec Buchanan; Part V. Future Directions and Emerging Issues: Introduction;
18. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia: categories vs
dimensions, distributions vs disease Jim van Os and Hélène Verdoux; 19. The
implications of epidemiology for service planning in schizophrenia Graham
Thornicroft and Michele Tansella; 20. Prevention of schizophrenia - not an
impossible dream John McGrath; Glossary; Index.