The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521858585 ISBN 13: 9780521858588

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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'.

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About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521858585
• ISBN 13: 9780521858588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Marneros Andreas, Akiskal Hagop S.