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Secondary Schizophrenia

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521856973, 9780521856973, 9780511789274
LCC
RC514 .S416 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6018910 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Medicine
Edition
1
Pages
450\454
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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; however, an approach less well travelled is to examine the medical disorders that produce symptoms resembling schizophrenia. This book is the first major attempt to bring together the diseases that produce what has been termed 'secondary schizophrenia'. International experts from diverse backgrounds ask the questions: does this medical disorder, or drug, or condition cause psychosis? If yes, does it resemble schizophrenia? What mechanisms form the basis of this relationship? What implications does this understanding have for aetiology and treatment? The answers are a feast for clinicians and researchers of psychosis and schizophrenia. They mark the next step in trying to meet the most important challenge to modern neuroscience - understanding and conquering this most mysterious of human diseases.

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