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Although there are many books that consider aspects of schizophrenia such as research or clinical care, now there is a single resource that puts the many facets of this widely misunderstood disorder in perspective. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia offers broad coverage that encompasses the current state of knowledge the cause, nature, and treatment of schizophrenia. Experts in a wide range of disciplines from North America and Europe have contributed chapters that address the complexity of schizophrenia in a comprehensive volume on this singularly perplexing mental illness. No disorder is more challenging to psychiatrists and mental health care providers than schizophrenia, a condition that robs people of their personality and intellect and leaves them permanently disabled. This book leads readers through the maze of questions surrounding the disorder, from historical overview and epidemiology to consideration of comorbid conditions. It covers both genetic and environmental causes, describes all of the leading theories of schizophrenia-neurodevelopmental, neurochemical, phospholipid, and neuroprogressive-and explores the involvement of abnormal brain circuitry and the results of the latest neuroimaging studies. For practicing clinicians, the topics covered represent the most essential, timely, and informative insights for treating this most prototypic of mental illnesses: * Approaching cognitive impairment as a potential psychopharmacological target for treatment, plus treatment strategies for improving functioning in individuals with social or vocational impairment.* An overview of selected antipsychotic drugs-including common side effects-as well as antianxiety/hypnotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and dopamine agonists.* A review of current proven psychosocial interventions designed to augment and complement drug therapy, highlighting the trend toward optimizing patient preference in the choice of treatment modality.* Keys to early identification of individuals vulnerable to psychoses and to assessing the potential for intervention with the promise of treatment earlier in life. * Optimal treatment approaches for first episodes-including individual, group, and family therapies-to increase the likelihood of full recovery.* Special considerations for treatment of chronic schizophrenia, addressing frequently asked questions faced by psychiatrists in their daily encounters with patients. While its causes and cure remain elusive, schizophrenia can be better understood with the help of the authoritative knowledge collected in these pages. Squarely confronting a disease that has long afflicted and baffled human society, this textbook will serve as a dependable source of knowledge for a generation of students, scientists, and clinicians to come.

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<p> All [chapters] are interesting and informative, and all present literature reviews which will be valuable to teachers, students, and, in some cases, investigators. Perhaps the best thumbnail sketches of the realities confronted by public health officials, case managers, and clinicians are the chapters on epidemiology, social/vocational impairments (including the sole reference to stigmatization), and the psychosocial therapies. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , March 2007

<p> Since Benedict Morel first established the diagnostic category of dementia praecox in 1860, each generation has attempted to characterize in its own terms the central disorder of psychiatry. Thus, in 1893 Emil Kraepelin distinguished dementia praecox from manic-depressive illness in descriptive terms, in 1911 Eugen Bleuler provided a dynamic perspective and renamed the illness schizophrenia, and in the 1960s Arvid Carlsson gave us the first biochemical insights into the disorder. Lieberman, Stroup, and Perkins now provide us with the textbook that will mark this generation. Their book is a must for every psychiatrist who wants to understand where modern research and clinical practice now stand, and where it needs to go in the next decade to ameliorate the suffering of patients with schizophrenia and their families. Taking a broad, scholarly, and synthetic approach to schizophrenia, this remarkable book outlines our understanding of how specific candidate genes can interact with environmental stressors to give rise to anatomical alterations during development that lead to the family of symptoms that characterize the disorder. -- Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Biochemistry, and Physiology, Columbia University, New York, New York

I was delighted to see this book arrive. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia will serve as the authoritative source on schizophrenia for mental health clinicians and will be a key resource for those interested in schizophrenia research. The text, spanning over 400 pages, reflects advances in both the neuroscience and the treatment of schizophrenia. From neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration, and even to the delivery of care in public sector services, the textbook covers the essentials of schizophrenia in a balanced and remarkably comprehensive manner. - Psychiatric Times, November 2006

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Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute; Director of the Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research; and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

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