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.
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A comprehensive epidemiological overview of schizophrenia including findings from social, genetic, developmental and classical epidemiology.
Foreword William Carpenter; Preface; Part I. The Social Epidemiology of
Schizophrenia: Introduction;
1. Investigating socio-environmental influences
in schizophrenia: conceptual and design issues Michaeline Bresnahan and Ezra
Susser;
2. Geographical variation in incidence, course and outcome in
schizophrenia: a comparison of developing and developed countries Michealine
Bresnahan, Paulo Menezes, Vijoy Varma and Ezra Susser;
3. Temporal variation
in the incidence, course and outcome of schizophrenia Michaeline Bresnahan,
Jane Boydell, Robin Murray and Ezra Susser;
4. Urbanisation, migration and
risk of schizophrenia Jane Boydell and Robin Murray; Part II. The
Developmental Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Introduction;
5. Prenatal and
perinatal risk factors for schizophrenia Mary Cannon, Robert Kendell, Ezra
Susser and Peter Jones;
6. Childhood development and later schizophrenia:
evidence from genetic high risk and birth cohort studies Mary Cannon, C. Jane
Tarrant, Matti O. Huttunen and Peter Jones;
7. Prodrome, onset and early
course of schizophrenia Heinz Häfner;
8. The value of first-episode studies
of schizophrenia Mary Clarke and Eadbhard O'Callaghan;
9. Schizophrenia at
the extremes of life Kenneth G. D. Orr and David J. Castle; Part III. The
Genetic Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Introduction;
10. The 'classical'
genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia Alastair Cardno and Robin Murray;
11.
Molecular genetics and epidemiology in schizophrenia: a necessary partnership
Stanley Zammit, Glyn Lewis and Michael J. Owen;
12. Gene-environment
correlation and interaction in schizophrenia Jim van Os and Pak Sham;
13.
Investigating gene-environment interaction in schizophrenia using
neuroimaging Theo G. M. van Erp, Timothy L. Gasperoni, Isabelle M. Rosso and
Tyrone D. Cannon; Part IV. Special Issues in the Epidemiology of
Schizophrenia: Introduction;
14. Mortality and physical illness in
schizophrenia Preben Bo Mortensen;
15. The clinical epidemiology of suicide
in schizophrenia Hannele Heilä and Jouko Lönnqvist;
16. What is the
relationship between substance abuse and schizophrenia? Robin Murray, Anton
Grech, Peter Phillips and Sonia Johnson;
17. Criminal and violent behaviour
in schizophrenia Elizabeth Walsh and Alec Buchanan; Part V. Future Directions
and Emerging Issues: Introduction;
18. Diagnosis and classification of
schizophrenia: categories vs dimensions, distributions vs disease Jim van Os
and Hélčne Verdoux;
19. The implications of epidemiology for service planning
in schizophrenia Graham Thornicroft and Michele Tansella;
20. Prevention of
schizophrenia - not an impossible dream John McGrath; Glossary; Index.
