Schizophrenia (eBook, ePUB)

The Final Frontier - A Festschrift for Robin M. Murray
Redaktion: David, Anthony S.; McGuffin, Peter; Kapur, Shitij

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Schizophrenia is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Robin M. Murray has made to the field of psychiatry over the past 35 years, with a particular focus on the advances that have been made to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia.

International contributors have been brought together to pay tribute to Robin Murray's work and explore the latest findings in the area. Sections cover:

• neurodevelopment
• neuroscience and pharmacology
• neuroimaging
• genetics
• cognition
• social psychiatry
• treatment.

This book will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social and basic scientists whose work is related to major mental illness, as well as admirers of the work of Robin Murray.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136670879
• Artikelnr.: 38270638

Autorenporträt

Anthony S. David is professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. Shitij Kapur is professor of schizophrenia, imaging and therapeutics, and Dean of School at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. Peter McGuffin is professor of psychiatric genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Weinberger
Foreword. Part I: Development. Karlsgodt
Ellman
Sun
Mittal
Cannon
The Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia. Laurens
Hodgins
Taylor
Murray
Is Earlier Intervention for Schizophrenia Possible? Identifying Antecedents of Schizophrenia in Children Aged 9-12 Years. Allin
Nosarti
The Black Hole of the Adolescent Brain. Jones
Miettunen
Suvisaari
Haukka
Isohanni
The Contribution of Nordic Populations
Registers and Scientists to the Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia and Other Psychiatric Disorders. Part II: Neuroscience. Morrison
The Search for Madness
A Metaphasical Trip Through the Basal Ganglia. Shaikh
Bramon
Neurophysiological Endophenotypes for Psychosis. Harrison
Glutamate
GABA and Solar Transmitter Systems: The Neuropathology of Amino-acids in Schizophrenia. Robbins
Animal Models of Schizophrenia Revisited. Part III: Neuroimaging. McGuire
Applications of Neuroimaging to the Study of Psychosis. Bullmore
Brain Networks and Schizophrenia. Dazzan
Morgan
Lappin
Fearon
Neuroimaging and Psychosis: Are Brain Changes in Individuals with Psychosis Neurodevelopmental for Some and Progressive for Others? Keshavan
Bhojraj
Gray Matter Alterations in Schizophrenia: Are They Reversible? Part IV: Genetics. McGuffin
A Short (and Partial) History of Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry. Porteous
From First Contact to the Final Frontier: A Star Trek Along the DISC1 Pathway to Schizophrenia. Nimgaonkar
Chowdari
Prasad
Watson
Mansour
Wood
Lopez
Dopamine Gene Variants and Schizophrenia: A Scheme for Investigating Nominally Significant or Discrepant Associations. Crow
Ebb and Flow in Biological Psychiatry. Part V: Cognition. Garety
Freeman
Jolley
Ross
Waller
Dunn
Cognitive Models of Psychosis: The Jumping to Conclusions Reasoning Bias and Improving Psychological Treatment for Delusions. MacCabe
Giftedness and Psychosis. Part VI: Social Psychiatry. Bebbington
Towards a Social Aetiology of Psychosis: The Case of Child Sex Abuse. Boydell
Allerdyce
Does Urban Density Matter? Di Forti
Paparelli
Casadio
Skunk is Conquering UK: Does Higher Potency Cannabis Mean Higher Risk for Psychosis? C. Morgan
Hutchinson
Dazzan
K. Morgan
Fearon
The Social Determinants of Psychosis in Migrant and Minority Ethnic Populations. Mondelli
Pariante
Stress and Psychosis
Professor Murray's Contribution (so far) to the Vulnerability-stress Model. Van Os
Rutten
Van Winkel
Wichers
Chasing Gene-environment Interactions Across the Psychiatric Universe. Part VII: Treatment. Natesan
Kapur
How Antipsychotics Work: Examining Trans-synaptic Realities. Nicholson
Castle
Metabolic Disturbance and Schizophrenia. Lewis
Clinical Trials and Schizophrenia. Howes
What Does New Evidence Tell Us About Dopamine's Role in Schizophrenia? David
Robin M. Murray: A Bibliographical Note.