The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia

by David, Anthony S.; Cutting, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780863773037
• ISBN10: 0863773036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

Schizophrenia is being increasingly viewed as a neurological disorder. The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia addresses the key questions in modern schizophrenia research. How do abnormalities of the brain produce the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and mysterious mental malady? Where are these abnormalities? How do they develop? How can we detect them? What clinical and cognitive effects do they have? This new book is the first of its kind to tackle these questions in a systematic way from a number of allied perspectives: from phenomenology to physiology, animal behaviour to metacognition and from PET scans to paper and pencil tests. A number of authors from the United Kingdom and the United States have made contributions; all are acknowledged experts in the field. The chapters each contain a concise review of the particular topic, empirical data and also a theoretical overview. The Neuropsychology of Schizophreniawill be required reading for all serious students of schizophrenia from both medical and psychology backgrounds.

Table of Contents

The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia: Introduction and Overview

Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology

The Left Striato-Pallidal Hyperactivity Model of Schizophrenia

Information Processing

Neuropsychological Vulnerability to Schizophrenia

Mechanisms of Backward Masking in Schizophrenia

Perceptual and Cognitive Abnormalities as the Bases for Schizophrenic Symptoms

Neuropsychology and Neurodevelopment

Neurodevelopmental Precursors of Schizophrenia

Low Intelligence and Poor Education Achievement Precede Early Onset Schizophrenic Psychosis

Cognition and Metacognition

Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia

Clinical Neuropsychology

The Cognitive Impairment of Severe Psychiatric Illness

Applying Working Memory Constructs to Schizophrenic Cognitive Impairment

Cognitive Functioning and Symptomatology in Schizophrenia: The Role of Fronto-Subcortical Involvement

Evidence for Right Hemisphere Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

Auditory Hallucinations

A Psycholinguistic Study of Auditory/Verbal Hallucinations: Preliminary Findings

Delusions and Delusional Misidentification

A.S. David, The Neuropsychological Origin of Auditory Hallucinations

The Cognitive Neuropsychiatric Origins of the Capgras Delusion

Biases and Abnormal Beliefs: Towards a Model of Persecutory Delusions

Top-Down Preconscious Perceptual Processing and Delusional Misidentification in Neuropsychiatric Disorder

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