The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra
Published on 9. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-521-10871-3 (ISBN)
Description
Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international team of experts discuss aspects of comorbidity, genetic models, clinical course, phenomenology and therapies. This is the first comprehensive overview of the schizoaffective spectra. Challenging cases presenting clinical and paraclinical features of both spectra are surprisingly numerous. Not only the phenomenology but also the course, outcome and treatment of such cases have their own characteristics. Recent research shows that the overlap also involves genetics and biological processes related to psychotic disorders. Within the overlap of affective and schizophrenic spectra it is possible to identify some groups of disorders having similar clinical and non-clinical features: the 'schizoaffective' group, 'Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder' or 'Brief Psychosis', and other groups found in so-called 'Atypical Forms'.
Reviews / Votes
'If this book is not of interest, the reader has no business being a psychiatrist. ... The book is well written and provides an excellent and accessible overview of relevant research. ... This book provides a wealth of useful, clinically relevant information that will be of interest to any reader who accepts the importance of taking account of a patient's illness beyond simple allocation to an operational diagnostic category. All psychiatrists involved in the management of individuals with mood and psychotic illnesses should read this book.' British Journal of PsychiatryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
29 Tables, unspecified; 27 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
542 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-10871-3 (9780521108713)
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The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra
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Persons
Andreas Marneros is Professor and Head of the Psychiatric Department of the Martin Luther University Halle, Germany. Hagop S. Akiskal is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the International Mood Center, University of California at San Diego.
Content
1. The paradigms of the overlapping of the affective and schizophrenic spectra: schizo-affective conditions Andreas Marneros; 2. The overlapping of the spectra: overlapping genes and genetic models John R. Kelsoe; 3. The continuum of psychosis and its genetic basis T. J. Crow; 4. Functional psychoses - molecular-genetic evidence for a continuum Hans H. Stassen, Christian Scharfetter and Jules Angst; 5. State- and trait-related deficits in sustained attention in bipolar disorder: are there any overlaps with schizophrenia? Luke Clark; 6. The concept of schizoaffective disorder - utility versus validity and reliability: a transcultural perspective Ahmed Okasha; 7. Phenomenological approaches to the schizoaffective spectrum William Coryell; 8. Clinical course of schizoaffective disorders M. Reinares, E. Vieta, A. Benabarre and A. Marneros; 9. Depressive syndromes in schizophrenia Wolfgang Gaebel, Ellen Bittner and Wolfgang Woelwer; 10. The overlapping of the spectra - brief and acute psychoses Frank Pillmann and Andreas Marneros; 11. Overlapping of the spectra: physical comorbidity between schizophrenia and affective disorders William S. Stone, Andrea H. Roe and Ming T. Tsuang; 12. The overlapping of the spectra: suicide Simavi Vahip; 13. Biological treatment of schizoaffective disorders Christopher Baethge; 14. Psychological therapies and shizoaffective disorders Jan Scott; 15. Epilogue: the interface of affective and schizophrenic disorders: a cross between two spectra? Hagop S. Akiskal.