Schizotypal Personality

by Edited by Adrian Raine , Todd Lencz , Sarnoff A. Mednick

• ISBN13: 9780521454223
• ISBN10: 0521454220
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is devoted to schizotypal personality. It provides a comprehensive overview of our knowledge from some of the world's leading researchers in the field, and includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology and brain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder and its relationship to schizophrenia. Valuable introductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimes divergent opinions and findings presented by the book's contributors and there are reviews of methodological issues and assessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field. In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological and neurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question 'What is schizotypal disorder?' and to develop coherent etiological models, this book will serve as an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Theoretical and conceptual issues in schizotypal personality research

Part II. Genetics and Neurodevelopment: 2. Family-genetic research and schizotypal personality

3. Schizotypal personality disorder characteristics associated with second trimester disturbance of neural development

4. Neurodevelopmental processes in schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder

Part III. Assessment: 5. Scales for the measurement of schizotypy

6. Schizotypal status as a developmental stage in studies

Part IV. Categorical versus Dimensional Approaches: 7. Tracking the taxon: on the latent structure and base rate of schizotypy

8. Detection of a latent taxon of individuals at-risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

9. Fully and quasi-dimensional constructions of schizotypy

Part V. Psychophysiology and Psychopharmacology: 10. Schizotypal personality and skin conductance orienting

11. Attention, startle eye-blink modification, and psychosis proneness

12. Brain structure/function and the dopamine system in schizotypal personality disorder

Part VI. Neuropsychology: 13. Neuropsychological abnormalities associated with schizotypal personality

14. Syndromes of schizotypy: patterns of cerebral laterality, arousal, and gender

15. Working memory deficits, antisaccades, and thought disorder in relation to perceptual aberration

Part VII. Brain Imaging: 16. Structural brain imaging in schizotypal personality

17. The potential of physiologic neuroimaging for the study of schizotypy: experiences from applications to schizophrenia

Part VIII. Conclusion: 18. Schizotypal personality: synthesis and future directions

Part IX. Appendix: semistructured interviews for schizotypal personality.