Social anxiety disorder and schizophrenia
Chapter 7 Social anxiety disorder and schizophrenia KEY POINTS • Social anxiety disorder affects around 1 in 5 people with schizophrenia. • Comorbid social anxiety disorder is associated with numerous…
Autism and schizophrenia: neurodevelopmental ‘playmates’?
Chapter 4 Autism and schizophrenia: neurodevelopmental ‘playmates’? KEY POINTS • Historical constructions of schizophrenia encompassed autism within their core. • Autism and schizophrenia share certain neurodevelopmental markers, but the emphasis…
Psychiatric comorbidities associated with schizophrenia: how should we conceptualize them?
Chapter 1 Psychiatric comorbidities associated with schizophrenia: how should we conceptualize them? KEY POINTS • Schizophrenia carries a high rate of psychiatric comorbidities. • Such comorbidities worsen the longitudinal course…
Psychiatric comorbidities in schizophrenia: the size of the problem
Chapter 2 Psychiatric comorbidities in schizophrenia: the size of the problem KEY POINTS • There are numerous methodological considerations to bear in mind in interpreting rates of psychiatric comorbidities in…
Generalized anxiety and panic disorder in schizophrenia
Chapter 6 Generalized anxiety and panic disorder in schizophrenia KEY POINTS • Schizophrenia and anxiety disorders occur together much more commonly than would be expected by chance. • There is…
Personality disorders and schizophrenia
Chapter 5 Personality disorders and schizophrenia KEY POINTS • Schizophrenia often manifests early in a person’s developmental trajectory and can impact personality development. • There are neurobiological factors that link…
Polysomnography
27912 Polysomnography Madeleine Grigg-Damberger and Steven A. Lopez Polysomnography (also called a sleep study) simultaneously and continuously records multiple different biophysiological parameters across a sleep period to characterize sleep, identify,…
Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring
32713 Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring Aatif M. Husain Neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring (NIOM) is used to reduce neurologic morbidity during surgeries in which the nervous system is at risk. NIOM is a…
The EEG in Status Epilepticus
20910 The EEG in Status Epilepticus Frank W. Drislane and Peter Kaplan Generalized convulsive status epilepticus (GCSE) is best diagnosed clinically, but the electroencephalography can indicate the stage or refractoriness…
