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Authors: Perminder S. Sachdev
Secondary Schizophrenia (176 page)
- Chapter 21 Demyelinating disease and psychosis
- Chapter 22 Infection and schizophrenia
- Chapter 23 The status of genetic investigations of schizophrenia
- Chapter 24 Velocardiofacial syndrome (chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome) as a model of schizophrenia
- Introduction
- Velocardiofacial syndrome
- The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia
- Prevalence of VCFS in schizophrenia
- Premorbid neuropsychological and brain morphometric findings in VCFS
- Schizophrenia phenotype in VCFS
- Quantitative MRI studies in adults with VCFS
- Treatment of VCFS-associated psychiatric illnesses
- Molecular genetics of schizophrenia as related to chromosome 22q11.2
- Mouse models of VCFS: relevance to schizophrenia
- References
- Introduction
- Chapter 25 Psychosis in Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Chapter 26 Friedreich’s Ataxia and schizophrenia-like psychosis
- Chapter 27 Wilson’s Disease
- Chapter 28 Huntington’s Disease and related disorders and their association with schizophrenia-like psychosis
- Chapter 29 Fahr’s Disease and psychosis
- Chapter 21 Demyelinating disease and psychosis
- Section 4 Related concepts
- Chapter 30 The Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Introduction
- Definition
- Simple and complex hallucinations
- Theories of hallucination generation
- Site of complex hallucinations
- What determines the total duration of hallucinations and why do they usually eventually cease?
- Prevalence and incidence
- Course and outcome
- Implications for clinical practice
- Suggestions for future research
- References
- Introduction
- Chapter 31 Acute brief psychosis – an organic syndrome?
- Current description of acute psychotic disorders in ICD and DSM
- Brief history of acute psychotic disorders
- Incidence, prevalence, risk factors, course, and outcome
- Biological abnormalities in acute psychotic disorders
- Acute psychosis in general medical and neurological conditions
- Pathophysiology of acute psychotic disorder and proposed etiopathological subgroups
- Clinical management of acute psychotic disorder
- Suggestions for future research
- Conclusions
- References
- Current description of acute psychotic disorders in ICD and DSM
- Chapter 30 The Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Section 5 Treatment
- Chapter 32 Drug treatment of secondary schizophrenia
- Introduction
- General principles of drug treatment
- Antipsychotic medications
- Conventional antipsychotic medications
- Atypical antipsychotic medications
- Antipsychotics for secondary schizophrenia
- Conventional antipsychotic medications
- Implications for clinical practice
- Antipsychotic treatment selection
- Summary and conclusions
- References
- Introduction
- Chapter 33 Nonpharmacological interventions in secondary schizophrenia
- Chapter 32 Drug treatment of secondary schizophrenia
- Index
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