The Early Course of Schizophrenia

by Sharma, Tonmoy; Harvey, Phil

• ISBN13: 9780198510840
• ISBN10: 0198510845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume is unique in adopting a lifespan approach to understanding schizophrenia. There are many aspects of schizophrenia that require research attention from a lifespan perspective. For example, there may be aspects of the behavior or biological functioning that are present before the illness that change an individual's risk for developing the illness. There may be environmental events that can cause schizophrenia in the absence of other predisposing factors. There may be genetic influences on the development of schizophrenia that are modified by environmental events, either psychological or physiological. Factors such as an individual's gender or intelligence may also influence schizophrenia, either in terms of changing the risk for development or changing aspects of the illness' presentation, such as onset age or overall functional outcome.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Schizophrenia in the premorbid period
Prenatal events that influence schizophrenia	3	(16)
Ezra Susser
Mark G. Opler
Interactions of genetic predisposition and intrauterine events in the etiology of schizophrenia	19	(22)
Lauren M. Ellman
Tyrone D. Cannon
Cognitive functioning before or at the onset of the first episode	41	(18)
Abraham Reichenburg
Michael Davidson
Section 2 Schizophrenia at the time of the first episode
Early onset schizophrenia: cognitive and clinical characteristics	59	(12)
Sophia Frangou
Brain imaging studies in childhood-onset schizophrenia	71	(16)
Nitin Gogtay
Judith L. Rapoport
Neurocognitive deficits and first-episode schizophrenia: characterization and course	87	(24)
Irene M. Bratti
Robert M. Bilder
Structural and functional brain abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia	111	(20)
Tonmoy Sharma
Veena Kumari
Diagnostic variability in the early course of schizophrenia	131	(16)
Evelyn J. Bromet
Bushra Naz
Sex differences in schizophrenia: the case for developmental origins and etiological implications	147	(28)
Jill M. Goldstein
Deborah J. Walder
Late-onset schizophrenia: characteristics of patients at the first episode	175	(14)
Philip D. Harvey
Section 3 Treatment of early schizophrenia
Prodromal period: pharmacological and behavioural interventions	189	(22)
Alison R. Yung
Lisa J. Phillips
Patrick D. McGorry
Treatment of schizophrenia at the first episode	211	(14)
Delbert G. Robinson
Treatment of late-onset schizophrenia	225	(12)
Gauri V. Nayak
David P. Folsom
Elizabeth W. Twamley
Dilip V. Jeste
Treatment of cognitive deficits in first episode psychosis	237	(18)
Richard S. E. Keefe
Joseph W. Kang
Index	255