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Title

The overlap of affective and schizophrenic spectra / [edited by] Andreas Marneros, Hagop Akiskal.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Marneros, A. (Andreas), 1946-
• Akiskal, Hagop S.

Description

xii, 299 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• Many clinicians and researchers now believe that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international team of experts discuss aspects of comorbidity, genetic models, clinical course, phenomenology, and therapies. This is the first comprehensive overview of this area of overlap.
• Challenging cases presenting clinical and para-clinical features of both spectra are surprisingly numerous. Not only the phenomenology but also the course, outcome, and treatment of such cases have their own characteristics. Recent research shows that the overlap also involves genetics and biological processes related to psychotic disorders. Within the overlap of affective and schizophrenic spectra, it is possible to identify some groups of disorders having similar clinical and non-clinical features: the "schizoaffective" group, "Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder" or "Brief Psychosis," and other groups found in so-called "Atypical Forms."

Subject

• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective disorders
• Psychoses
• Psychotic depression
• Psychotic Disorders
• Affective Disorders, Psychotic
• Schizophrenia
• Psychotic depression
• Psychoses
• Schizoaffective disorders
• Schizoaffektive Psychose

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The paradigma of overlapping affective and schizophrenic spectra: schizoaffective conditions / Andreas Marneros -- The overlapping of the spectra: overlapping genes and genetic models / John R. Kelsoe -- The continuum of psychosis and its genetic basis / T.J. Crow -- Functional psychoses: molecular-genetic evidence for a continuum / Hans H. Stassen, Christian Scharfetter and Jules Angst -- State- and trait-related deficits in sustained attention in bipolar disorder: are there any overlaps with schizophrenia? / Luke Clark -- The concept of a schizoaffective disorder: utility versus validity and reliability- a transcultural perspective / Ahmed Okasha -- Phenomenological approaches to the schizoaffective spectrum / William Coryell -- Clinical course of schizoaffective disorders / Maria Reinares ... [et al.] -- Depressive syndromes in schizophrenia / Wolfgang Gaebel, Ellen Bittner and Wolfgang Wölwer -- The overlapping of the spectra: brief and acute psychoses / Frank Pillmann and Andreas Marneros -- Overlapping of the spectra: physical comorbidity between schizophrenia and affective disorders / William S. Stone, Andrea H. Roe and Ming T. Tsuang -- The overlapping of the spectra suicide / Simavi Vahip -- Biological treatment of schizoaffective disorders / Jan Scott -- Epilogue: the interface of affective and schizophrenic disorders: a cross between two spectra? / Hagop S. Akiskal.

ISBN

• 9780521858588
• 0521858585

LCCN

• 2007275258
• 9780521858588

OCLC

• ocm71348225
• 71348225
• SCSB-9794448

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library