Early Course of Schizophrenia

Name: Early Course of Schizophrenia
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ISBN: 9780198510840

ISBN-10: 0198510845

ISBN-13: 9780198510840

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tonmoy Sharma, Phil Harvey

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New developments in the basic and clinical neurosciences have lead to important advances in our understanding of the events that occur between conception and birth that can influence schizophrenia. At the other end of the life span, some of the most exciting developments in years have recently been coming out of comprehensive studies of post-mortem studies of patients with schizophrenia. In the clinical domain, studies of first episode patients with schizophrenia areproliferating, at the same time as many research groups are performing comprehensive studies of patients with schizophrenia who are in the eighth decade of life or even older. Thus, many of the exciting new developments in…

Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.76" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Schizophrenia in the pre-morbid period



Prenatal events that influence schizophrenia




Interactions of genetic predispositions and intrauterine events




Cognitive functioning before or at the onset of first episode




Schizophrenia at the Time of the First Episode



Early onset schizophrenia: cognitive and clinical characteristics




Brain imaging studies in childhood onset schizophrenia




Neurocognitive deficits and first-episode schizophrenia:characterization and course




Adult onset schizophrenia: structural and functional brain abnormalities




Diagnostic variability in the early course of schizophrenia




Sex differences in schizophrenia: the case for developmental origins and etiological implications




Late onset schizophrenia: characteristics of patients at the first episode




Treatment of Early Schizophrenia



Prodromal period - pharmacological and behavioural interventions




Treatment of schizophrenia at the first episode




Treatment of late-onset schizophrenia




Treatment of cognitive deficits in first episode psychosis