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The extremes of the bell curve : excellent and poor school performance and risk for severe mental disorders / James Hunter MacCabe.
Van Pelt Library LB1062.6 .M33 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCabe, James.
- Series:
- Maudsley series
- The Maudsley series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic achievement--Sweden--Psychological aspects.
- Academic achievement.
- Mental illness--Etiology.
- Mental illness.
- Psychological aspects.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 1 Background 1
- What is schizophrenia? 1
- What is bipolar disorder 5
- What is epidemiology? 6
- The epidemiology of schizophrenia 7
- The epidemiology of bipolar disorder 13
- Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: division versus overlap 15
- 2 Intelligence, creativity and mental illness 19
- Methodological difficulties 20
- Types of study design 21
- Conclusion 26
- 3 Pre-morbid neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a review of the published literature 27
- Mason, 1956 28
- The British birth cohort studies 29
- Swedish conscript studies 30
- National Collaborative Perinatal Project 32
- Israeli conscript studies 32
- Finnish studies 33
- Dunedin cohort 35
- Copenhagen sample 35
- Summary and conclusions 36
- 4 The study of pre-morbid school performance in schizophrenia and other psychoses (SP3) 39
- Aims and objectives 39
- Choice of study design 40
- Identifying a Swedish dataset 43
- Background information on the data 46
- Finalising the study design 52
- Choice of statistical design 52
- Registers used in the study 55
- Constructing the database 60
- Linkage, data processing and construction of additional variables 64
- Ethical approval 69
- 5 School performance and psychosis: unadjusted analyses 71
- General 71
- Crude relationship between overall school performance and psychosis 76
- 6 Confounding and interaction: finding the model that best describes the data 97
- Definition of confounding and effect modification 97
- Modelling approach 98
- Associations of potential confounders with school performance 99
- Schizophrenia: confounding and interaction 101
- Schizoaffective disorder: confounding and interaction 107
- Bipolar disorder: confounding and interaction 109
- 7 School performance in individual school subjects 113
- Analysis strategy 113
- Schizophrenia 114
- Schizoaffective disorder 114
- Bipolar disorder 116
- Conclusions 117
- 8 General discussion 119
- Summary of findings 119
- Strengths and weaknesses of this research 120
- Comparison with other studies 126
- Interpretation of findings 129
- Clinical implications 140
- Remaining questions and future directions 141
- Conclusions 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848720459
- 1848720459
- OCLC:
- 449889573
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