Research Catalog

Title

Mind, brain, and schizophrenia / Peter Williamson.

Author

Williamson, Peter, 1953-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2006.

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Details

Description

xii, 278 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"The author of this accessible, well-written book argues that it is time to set aside the search for a single cause of schizophrenia and focus on the disorder's final common pathway. He highlights clues from a wide range of research, including neurotransmitter, psychophysiological, and brain imaging studies. He then describes possibilities for the final common pathway at an understandable level in the context of what is already known about schizophrenia. While there are no preferred models of schizophrenia, a pattern is emerging that implicates those structures in the brain known to be important in integrating perception, cognition, and affect. A better understanding of these processes will be critical for developing more effective treatments. This book will help advance that effort. It will be of great value to psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, neuroimagers, and basic scientists working in the field of schizophrenia research, and to their students and trainees. Mind, Brain, and Schizophrenia will also be of interest to clinicians and scientists concerned with other neuropsychiatric disorders, and to the families of those diagnosed with schizophrenia."--Jacket.

Subject

• Schizophrenia
• Neuropsychiatry
• Brain chemistry
• Nervous system > Degeneration
• Schizophrenia > etiology
• Schizophrenia > diagnosis
• Brain Chemistry
• Brain > physiopathology
• Nerve Degeneration
• Models, Neurological
• Diagnostic Imaging > methods
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychology
• 44.90 neurology
• Nervous system > Degeneration
• Brain chemistry
• Neuropsychiatry
• Schizofrenie
• Neurologische aspecten
• Esquizofrènia
• Neuropsiquiatria

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-265) and index.

Contents

The evolving concept of schizophrenia -- Candidate neuronal circuits -- When does schizophrenia begin? -- Clues from drugs that affect dopamine, glutamate, and other neurotransmitters -- Some clues from psychophysiology -- Neuropsychological studies -- Imaging brain structure in living patients -- Imaging brain function in living patients -- Imaging brain chemistry and the question of neuronal degeneration -- Pieces of the puzzle: likely components of the final common pathway -- Early models of the final common pathway: disconnection and coordination -- Early models of the final common pathway: basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits -- Do the models fit with what we know about schizophrenia? -- Implications for treatment -- The way forward.

ISBN

• 0195176375
• 9780195176377

LCCN

• 2004029471
• 9780195176377

OCLC

• ocm57251033
• 57251033
• SCSB-9794706

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library