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The extremes of the bell curve : excellent and poor school performance and risk for severe mental disorders / James Hunter MacCabe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCabe, James.
- Series:
- Maudsley Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic achievement--Psychological aspects--Sweden.
- Academic achievement.
- Mental illness--Etiology.
- Mental illness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It has long been claimed that there is a strong association between high intelligence, or exceptional creativity, and mental illness. In this book, James MacCabe investigates this claim, using evidence from Swedish population data. He finds evidence that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk of adult mental health disorders.This book opens with an introduction to the epidemiology of psychosis with particular emphasis on cognitive performance and creativity. It goes on to provide a detailed description of the rationale, metho
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE: Background; CHAPTER TWO: Intelligence, creativity and mental illness; CHAPTER THREE: Pre-morbid neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a review of the published literature; CHAPTER FOUR: The study of pre-morbid school performance in schizophrenia and other psychoses (SP3); CHAPTER FIVE: School performance and psychosis: unadjusted analyses; CHAPTER SIX: Confounding and interaction: finding the model that best describes the data
- CHAPTER SEVEN: School performance in individual school subjectsCHAPTER EIGHT: General discussion; Appendix; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-98129-2
- 1-136-98130-6
- 1-282-58670-X
- 9786612586705
- 0-203-85310-5
- 9780203853108
- OCLC:
- 609863250
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