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Secondary Schizophrenia

ISBN: 9780521856973 | 0521856973
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 3/15/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Secondary Schizophrenia is the first major attempt to review the diseases that produce schizophrenia-like syndromes, or psychotic symptoms. It marks the next step in trying to meet the most important challenge to modern neuroscience - understanding and conquering this most mysterious of human diseases.
Schizophrenia may not be a single disease, but the result of a diverse set of related conditions. Modern neuroscience is beginning to reveal some of the genetic and environmental underpinnings of schizophrenia; howev... MORE
List of contributorsp. vii
Prefacep. xiii
Introduction
Neurobiology and etiology of primary schizophrenia: current statusp. 3
The concept of organicity and its application to schizophreniap. 16
Secondary hallucinationsp. 21
The neurology of schizophrenia
The neurologic examination in schizophreniap. 47
Functional neuroimaging... MOREp. 60
Organic syndromes of schizophrenia
Epilepsy and schizophrenia
Schizophrenia-like psychosis and epilepsyp. 79
Understanding the pathophysiology of schizophrenia through the looking glass of forced normalizationp. 103
Drugs and schizophrenia-like psychosis
Substance-induced psychosis: an overviewp. 112
Stimulants and psychosisp. 127
Psychotomimetic effects of PCP, LSD, and Ecstasy: pharmacological models of schizophrenia?p. 141
Schizophrenia secondary to cannabis usep. 169
Toxic psychosisp. 179
Other neurological disorders
Schizophrenia-like psychosis and traumatic brain injuryp. 186
Cerebrovascular disease and psychosisp. 197
Neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's Disease, fronto-temporal dementia) and schizophrenia-like psychosisp. 204
Storage disorders and psychosisp. 214
Mitochondrial disorders and psychosisp. 229
Psychosis associated with leukodystrophiesp. 241
Normal pressure hydrocephalusp. 257
Brain tumorsp. 263
Demyelinating disease and psychosisp. 273
Systemic disorders
Infection and schizophreniap. 279
Genetic disorders related to SLP
The status of genetic investigations of schizophreniap. 288
Velocardiofacial syndrome (chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome) as a model of schizophreniap. 309
Psychosis in Prader-Willi Syndromep. 328
Friedreich's Ataxia and schizophrenia-like psychosisp. 332
Wilson's Diseasep. 337
Huntington's Disease and related disorders and their association with schizophrenia-like psychosisp. 348
Fahr's Disease and psychosisp. 358
Related concepts
The Charles Bonne tSyndromep. 369
Acute brief psychosis-an organic syndrome?p. 380
Treatment
Drug treatment of secondary schizophreniap. 393
Nonpharmacological interventions in secondary schizophreniap. 406
Indexp. 419
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Perminder S. Sachdev is Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the school of Psychiatry, university of New south Wales, and Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric institute (NPI), the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia. MatchEri S. Keshavan is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massaachusetts, USA.


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