The Origins of Schizophrenia / / ed. by Paul Patterson, Alan Brown.
The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, translational neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have recast schizophrenia's neurobiological nat...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 21 illus; 14 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Overview: Schizophrenia and the Lifetime Trajectory of Psychotic Illness: Developmental Neuroscience and Pathobiology, Redux
- PART 1. Clinical Research on Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
- Section 1. Environmental Factors: Epidemiologic Studies on the Etiologies of Schizophrenia
- 1. Maternal Infection and Schizophrenia
- 2. Prenatal Nutrition and the Etiology of Schizophrenia
- 3. Obstetric Complications and Schizophrenia: Historical Overview and New Directions
- 4. Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia
- 5. Advancing Paternal Age and the Risk for Schizophrenia
- 6. Cannabis Use as a Component Cause of Schizophrenia
- Section 2. Genetics and Epigenetics
- 7. Schizophrenia Genetics: What Have We Learned from Genomewide Association Studies?
- 8. Genetic Architecture of Schizophrenia: The Contribution of Copy Number Variation
- 9. The Epigenetics of Schizophrenia
- PART 2. Preclinical Research on Etiologies of Schizophrenia
- Section 1. Animal Models of Environmental Factors and Schizophrenia
- 10. Animal Models of the Maternal Infection Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
- 11. Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
- 12. Animal Models of Prenatal Protein Malnutrition Relevant for Schizophrenia
- 13. Animal Models of the Maternal Stress Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
- Section 2. Animal Models of Genetic Factors and Schizophrenia
- 14. DISC1: A New Paradigm for Schizophrenia and Biological Psychiatry
- 15. Mutant Models of Nrg1 and ErbB4: Abnormalities of Brain Structures, Functions, and Behaviors Relevant to Schizophrenia
- List of Contributors
- Index