Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II Phenotypic a
A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2
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Michael S. Ritsner Editor
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations
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Editor Michael S. Ritsner Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Haifa Israel [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0830-3 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0831-0 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0831-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011924745 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Insights from Views Across 100 years Schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders such as schizoaffective and mood disorders, schizophreniform disorders, brief psychotic disorders, delusional and shared psychotic disorders, and personality (i.e., schizotypal, paranoid, and schizoid personality) disorders are the most debilitating forms of mental illness, worldwide. There are 89,377 citations (including 10,760 reviews) related to “schizophrenia” and 2,118 (including 296 reviews) related to “schizophrenia spectrum” in PubMed (accessed on August 12, 2010). The classification of these disorders, in particular, of schizophrenia, schizoaffective and mood disorders (referred to as functional psychoses), has been debated for decades, and its validity remains controversial. The limited success of genetic studies of functional psyhoses has raised questions concerning the definition of genetically relevant phenotypes. Many researchers around the world have investigated schizophrenia spectrum, and related disorders from the perspectives of diagnostics, early detection of psychotic disorders, genetics, neuroscience, prognosis, and treatment. Therefore, these v
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fields have considerably expanded with new findings that were obtained through clinical and longitudinal observations and neuropsychological, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, neuroanatomical, neurochemical, molecular genetic, genomic and proteomic analyses, which have generated a necessity for syntheses across the functional psychoses. The present three-volume handbook is a collection that continues to achieve my goal of providing a comprehensive up-to-date state of the art overview of the literature that addresses the challenges facing clinical and biological psychiatry. This series follows four recently published books: • Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders. New Perspectives on Research and Treatment. Ritsner, Michael S.; Awad, A. George (Eds.), Springer, 2007, 388p. • Neuroactive Steroids in Brai
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