Schizophrenia by David, Anthony S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents List of plates List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword by Daniel R. Weinberger Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Development

1. The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia 2. Is earlier intervention for schizophrenia possible? Identifying antecedents of schizophrenia in children aged 9–12 years 3. The black hole of the adolescent brain 4. The contribution of Nordic population registers to the search for the causes of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders

Part II: Neuroscience

5. The search for madness: A metaphasical trip through the basal ganglia 6. Neurophysiological endophenotypes for psychosis 7. Glutamate and GABA transmitter systems: Post-mortem studies and the neuropathology of amino acids in schizophrenia 8. Animal models of schizophrenia revisited

Part III: Neuroimaging

9. Application of neuroimaging to the study of psychosis 10. Brain networks and schizophrenia 11. Neuroimaging and psychosis: Are brain changes in individuals with psychosis neurodevelopmental for some and progressive for others? 12. Gray matter alterations in schizophrenia: Are they reversible?

Part IV: Genetics

13. A short (and partial) history of genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry 14. From first contact to the final frontier: A star trek along the DISC1 pathway to schizophrenia 15. Dopamine gene variants and schizophrenia: A scheme for investigating nominally significant or discrepant associations 16. Ebb and flow in biological psychiatry

Part V: Cognition

17. Cognitive models of psychosis, the jumping to conclusions reasoning bias and improving psychological treatment for delusions 18. Giftedness and psychosis

Part VI: Social psychiatry

19. Towards a social aetiology of psychosis: The case of child sexual abuse 20. Does urban density matter? 21. Does higher potency cannabis mean higher risk for psychosis? 22. The social determinants of psychosis in migrant and minority ethnic populations 23. Stress and psychosis: Professor Murray’s contribution (so far) to the vulnerability–stress model 24. Chasing gene–environment interactions across the psychiatric universe

Part VII: Treatment

25. How antipsychotics work: Examining trans-synaptic realities 26. Metabolic disturbance and schizophrenia 27. Clinical trials and schizophrenia 28. What new evidence tells us about dopamine’s role in schizophrenia

Part VIII: Afterword

29. Robin M. Murray: A biographical note 30. Robin M. Murray: Top 12 publications

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