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Biology of schizophrenia and affective disease / edited by Stanley J. Watson.

Title: Biology of schizophrenia and affective disease / edited by Stanley J. Watson.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : American Psychiatric Press, [1996], ©1996.

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xvii, 535 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Biology of Schizophrenia and Affective Disease provides a state-of-the-art look at the biological bases of severe mental illness from the perspective of the researchers making these exceptional discoveries. In 17 chapters, some of the best investigators in the field furnish overviews of their ground-breaking findings and set course for future research efforts.".
"From the biology of stress to excitotoxicity in the development of corticolimbic alterations in the schizophrenic brain, this outstanding reference tool explores the explosive progress in the fields of biochemistry, molecular genetics, neuroscience, and brain circuit anatomy and the resultant advances in nearly every aspect of the biology of the brain and mental illness.
Cerebral cortical alterations in patients with schizophrenia, linkage and molecular genetics in infantile autism, and postmortem studies of suicide victims and schizophrenic patients are among the topics covered. The book also discusses treatment issues, including the mechanisms of action of antidepressants and atypical antipsychotic drugs."--BOOK JACKET.

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Congress.

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"Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease."
Proceedings of the 73rd Meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease held Dec. 1993 in New York City.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction to the 73rd Meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease / Stanley J. Watson -- 2. The Biology of Stress: From Periphery to Brain / Huda Akil and M. Ines Morano -- 3. Norepinephrine and Serotonin Transporters: Progress on Molecular Targets of Antidepressants / Randy D. Blakely -- 4. Excitotoxicity in the Development of Corticolimbic Alterations in Schizophrenic Brain / Francine M. Benes -- 5. Dissolution of Cerebral Cortical Mechanisms in Subjects With Schizophrenia / Patricia Goldman-Rakic -- 6. Linkage and Molecular Genetics of Infantile Autism / Roland D. Ciaranello -- 7. Epidemiology and Behavioral Genetics of Schizophrenia / Ming T. Tsuang and Stephen V. Faraone -- 8. Postmortem Studies of Suicide Victims / J. John Mann, Mark D. Underwood and Victoria Arango -- 9. Schizophrenia: Postmortem Studies / Joel E. Kleinman and Safia Nawroz --
10. Brain Circuits and Brain Function: Implications for Psychiatric Diseases / Marcus E. Raichle and Wayne C. Drevets -- 11. Peptides and Affective Disorders / Michael J. Owens, Paul M. Plotsky and Charles B. Nemeroff -- 12. Mechanism of Action of Antidepressants: Monoamine Hypotheses and Beyond / Robert M. Berman, John H. Krystal and Dennis S. Charney -- 13. Dopamine and Schizophrenia Revisited / Rene S. Kahn, Michael Davidson and Kenneth L. Davis -- 14. Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Insights From Neuroimaging / John Darrell Van Horn, Karen Faith Berman and Daniel R. Weinberger -- 15. Abnormal Frontotemporal Interactions in Patients With Schizophrenia / Karl J. Friston, Sigrid Herold, P. Fletcher, D. Silbersweig, C. Cahill, R. J. Dolan, P. F. Liddle, R. S. J. Frackowiak and C. D. Frith -- 16. Mechanism of Action of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs: An Update / Herbert Y. Meltzer, Bryan Yamamoto, Martin T. Lowy and Craig A. Stockmeier -- 17. Overview and Discussion / Steven Matthysse.

ISBN

0880487461

LCCN

95010715

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Columbia University Libraries