Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorders J. Garrabé F.-R. Cousin Historic introduction Acute and transient psychotic episodes have been described since the end of the nineteenth century. Descriptions have varied from…
Schizoaffective and Schizotypal Disorders Ming T. Tsuang William S. Stone Stephen V. Faraone Introduction This chapter focuses on two disorders in the schizophrenia ‘spectrum’: schizoaffective disorder and schizotypal personality disorder….
Treatment and Management of Schizophrenia D. G. Cunningham Owens E. C. Johnstone Introduction Historically, there was no shortage of interventions to ‘treat’ insanity, and later, schizophrenia. Most were palliative, barely…
Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia and Their Prediction Assen Jablensky Introduction The course of schizophrenia is as variable as its symptoms. Systematic investigations of course of the psychoses were initiated…
Epidemiology of Schizophrenia Assen Jablensky Introduction Epidemiological research into schizophrenia aims to answer four essential questions. What is the ‘true’ population frequency of the disorder in various populations and how…
Diagnosis, Classification, and Differential Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Anthony S. David The diagnosis of schizophrenia Until the early 1970s, the diagnosis of schizophrenia was one of the most contentious and fraught…
The Clinical Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia Philip D. Harvey Christopher R. Bowie Introduction Impairments in a variety of cognitive functions are found in patients with schizophrenia. These impairments affect a wide…
Descriptive Clinical Features of Schizophrenia Peter F. Liddle The clinical features of schizophrenia embrace a diverse range of disturbances of perception, thought, emotion, motivation, and motor activity. It is an…
Schizophrenia: A Conceptual History Nancy C. Andreasen We know that psychotic disorders have been present and publicly recognized at least since classical times because of their portrayals in literature: the…
