The epidemiology of schizophrenia / edited by Robin M. Murray [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Robin M., 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia--Epidemiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 454 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An international team of leading researchers and clinicians here provide a comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still perplexing disorder, and address some of the key questions it raises. How important in the genetic contribution to schizophrenia? Do pregnancy and birth complications increase the risk for schizophrenia? Is the incidence of schizophrenia changing? Why is the rate higher among immigrants and in those born in cities? Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth, and separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered. Drawing together the findings from social, genetic, developmental and classical epidemiology of schizophrenia, this text will prove an invaluable resource for clinicians and researchers.

Contents:

Foreword / William Carpenter

The social epidemiology of schizophrenia

Investigating socioenvironmental influences in schizophrenia: conceptual and design issues / Michaeline Bresnahan, Ezra Susser

Geographical variation in incidence, course and outcome of schizophrenia: a comparison of developing and developed countries / Michaeline Bresnahan, Paulo Menezes, Vijoy Varma, Ezra Susser

Temporal variation in the incidence, course and outcome of schizophrenia / Michaeline Bresnahan, Jane Boydell, Robin Murray, Ezra Susser

Urbanization, migration and risk of schizophrenia / Jane Boydell, Robin Murray

The developmental epidemiology of schizophrenia

Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for schizophrenia / Mary Cannon, Robert Kendell, Ezra Susser, Peter Jones

Childhood development and later schizophrenia: evidence from genetic high-risk and birth cohort studies / Mary Cannon, C. Jane Tarrant, Matti O. Huttunen, Peter Jones

Prodrome, onset and early course of schizophrenia / Heinz Hafner

The value of first-episode studies in schizophrenia / Mary Clarke, Eadbhard O'Callaghan

Schizophrenia at the extremes of life / Kenneth G.D. Orr, David J. Castle

The genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia

The 'classical' genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia / Alastair Cardno, Robin M. Murray

Molecular genetics and epidemiology in schizophrenia: a necessary partnership / Stanley Zammit, Glyn Lewis, Michael J. Owen

Gene-environment correlation and interaction in schizophrenia / Jim van Os, Pak Sham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12894-3

1-280-16022-5

9786610160228

0-511-11852-X

1-139-14633-5

0-511-06679-1

0-511-06048-3

0-511-54411-1

0-511-30795-0

0-511-06892-1

OCLC:

57204210